First published in The Critic, these sketches show American writers of the 1880s and 1890s in their own houses, each written by someone the author chose. Readers visit Mark Twain at Hartford and Elmira, John Burroughs at Esopus, George W. Cable in New Orleans, Joel Chandler Harris in Atlanta, John Hay in Washington and many more.
An intimate gallery of Gilded Age literary life, edited by the founders of The Critic. Download the free EPUB.