Devil's Ford by Bret Harte, Fiction, Westerns, Historical: Seven & Eva in French's Forest
Autor Bret Harteen Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 iul 2011
Even so, the American west was in his heart, and that was what he wrote about -- as he does here, in Devil's Ford, a novel set in Harte's California, which it speaks to preposterousness in a very Bret-Hartelike way: Kearney, it's decided, will furnish water brought from the Union Ditch, twenty miles away, at a cost of two hundred thousand dollars, to feed a memorial fountain erected by Mattingly, worth a hundred thousand dollars, as a crowning finish to public buildings contributed by Maryland Joe, to the extent of half a million more. The disposition of these vast sums by gentlemen wearing patched breeches awakened no sense of the ludicrous, nor did any doubt, reservation, or contingency enter into the plans of the charming enthusiasts themselves. The foundation of their airy castles lay already before them in the strip of rich alluvium on the riverbank, where the North Fork, sharply curving round the base of Devil's Spur, had for centuries swept the detritus of gulch and canyon. Like all of Bret Harte's work, this novel is fun stuff. Don't miss it.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781463897536
ISBN-10: 1463897537
Pagini: 126
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: AEGYPAN
ISBN-10: 1463897537
Pagini: 126
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: AEGYPAN