Here we have a gentleman housebound and stuck, just like us. Only he broke his leg. His friend, fearing he might begin to suffer from melancholia, writes him letters to cheer him up. Does he go too far? You be the judge. I rather like the term melancholia for what some of us might be feeling these days. Alas, we must endure!
White was a keen observer of the beauties of nature and human nature yet could render them in a plain-spoken style. He wrote Westerns,...
In this piece I give you Cora and Addie. Enjoy!
Harte worked in a number of different professional capacities including miner, teacher, messenger and journalist before turning to full time writing in 1871. Bret...