| A Sappho of Green Springs Contributor(s): Harte, Bret (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798706508395 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $8.99 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2021 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Westerns - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 8.5" W x 11.02" (0.76 lbs) 142 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Book Excerpthe signature initials.The stranger looked disturbed. "Then she ain't about hereanywhere?" he said, with a vague gesture. "She don't belong tothe office?"The young editor beamed with tolerant superiority: "No, I am sorryto say.""I should like to have got to see her and kinder asked her a fewquestions," continued the stranger, with the same reflectiveseriousness. "You see, it wasn't just the rhymin' o' them verses, --and they kinder sing themselves to ye, don't they?--it wasn't thechyce o' words, --and I reckon they allus hit the idee in the centreshot every time, --it wasn't the idees and moral she sort o' drewout o' what she was tellin', --but it was the straight thingitself, --the truth!""The truth?" repeated the editor."Yes, sir. I've bin there. I've seen all that she's seen in thebrush--the little flicks and checkers o' light and shadder down inthe brown dust that you wonder how it ever got through the dark ofthe woods, and that allus seems to slip away like a snake or aliRead |
