The Luck Of Roaring Camp In The Carquinez Woods And Other Stories And Sketches PDF Download

Excerpt from The Luck of Roaring Camp, And, in the Carquinez Woods: And Other Stories and Sketches The Opportunity here offered1 to give some account of the genesis of these Californian sketches, and the condi tions under which they were conceived, is peculiarly tempt ing to an author who has been obliged to retain a decent professional reticence under a cloud of ingenious surmise, theory, and misinterpretation. He Very gladly seizes this Opportunity to establish the chronology of the sketches, and incidentally to Show that what are considered the happy accidents of literature are very apt to be the results of quite logical and often prosaic processes. 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.