Side Lights On American Literature Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Side-Lights on American Literature Sunday supplement, just as a generation before The Atlantic Monthly had purchased for a year the pen of Bret Harte. Then at the height of his powers suddenly he vanished: dead at forty-eight. He had come like a comet; he had filled the whole sky; he had disappeared like a comet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.