Grantville archive for February, 2012

THE COHERENT PLOT OF GABRIEL CONROY (V)

Bret Harte’s California, his regional mythmaking effort embodied in twenty volumes of collected works, also includes the tyranny of lynch ...

THE COHERENT PLOT OF GABRIEL CONROY (IV)

Book Fifth occasions the end of the novel. In the original American Publishing Company edition, it is the last “book” ...

THE COHERENT PLOT OF GABRIEL CONROY (III)

Stylistically, Harte’s description of the Spanish Quarter in San Francisco displays archetypal terminology. The changing “grade” refers to the original ...