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The Life of Bret Harte, with Some Account of the California Pioneers. Henry Childs Merwin
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Автор произведения Henry Childs Merwin
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Henry Childs Merwin
The Life of Bret Harte, with Some Account of the California Pioneers
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066221423
Table of Contents
BRET HARTE’S WANDERINGS IN CALIFORNIA
WOMEN AND CHILDREN AMONG THE PIONEERS
LITERATURE, JOURNALISM AND RELIGION
BRET HARTE’S DEPARTURE FROM CALIFORNIA
BRET HARTE AS A WRITER OF FICTION
PREFACE
It is a pleasure for the Author of this book to record his indebtedness to others in preparing it. Mrs. T. Edgar Pemberton, and Messrs. C. Arthur Pearson, Limited, the publishers of Pemberton’s Life of Bret Harte, have kindly consented to the quotation from that interesting book of several letters by Mr. Harte that throw much light upon his character. Similar permission was given by Mr. Howells and his publishers, the Messrs. Harper and Brothers, to make use of Mr. Howells’ account of Bret Harte’s visit to him at Cambridge; and of this permission the Author has availed himself with a freedom which the Reader at least will not regret.
Professor Raymond Weeks, President of the American Dialect Society, Professor C. Alphonso Smith, Mr. Albert Matthews, and others whose names are mentioned on page 326, have lent their aid in regard to the Pioneer language, and Ernest