The Poetical Works of Bret Harte
Book Description
In rearranging and editing the following pages, the author is impelled by a desire to present under his own supervision a complete edition of his writings which shall show as nearly as possible the order in which his several tales and sketches have appeared in America ;shall contain those writings and sketches which have appeared in England at various times and under various shapes and editions; a...
MoreIn rearranging and editing the following pages, the author is impelled by a desire to present under his own supervision a complete edition of his writings which shall show as nearly as possible the order in which his several tales and sketches have appeared in America ;shall contain those writings and sketches which have appeared in England at various times and under various shapes and editions; and shall, more particularly, take the place of a volume known as his Complete Works. This volume, published in 1872, before the authors presence in Europe made his personal cognisance and supervision of such a work possible, was desultory and incomplete, even for the time of its publication. The present edition aims to contain the substance of that volume, duly corrected, with all that was then omitted by the editor or has since been published by the author. The opportunity here offered to give some account of the genesis of these Californian sketches, and the conditions under which they were conceived, is peculiarly tempting to an author who has been obliged to retain a decent professional reticence under a cloud of ingenious VOL.
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