The Relation of Literature to Life

Project Gutenberg's Relation of Literature to Life, by Charles Dudley WarnerThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: Relation of Literature to LifeAuthor: Charles Dudley WarnerRelease Date: December 6, 2004 [EBook #3117]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RELATION OF LITERATURE TO LIFE ***Produced by David WidgerTHE RELATION OF LITERATURE TO LIFEBy Charles Dudley WarnerCONTENTS:BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH BY THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY. THE RELATION OF LITERATURE TO LIFEBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHThe county of Franklin in Northwestern Massachusetts, if not rivaling in certain ways the adjoining Berkshire, has still aromantic beauty of its own. In the former half of the nineteenth century its population was largely given up to the pursuit ofagriculture, though not under altogether favorable conditions. Manufactures had not yet invaded the region either to addto its wealth or to defile its streams. The villages were small, the roads pretty generally wretched save in summer, andfrom many of the fields the most abundant crop that could be gathered was that of stones.The character of the people conformed in many ways to that of the soil. The houses which lined the opposite sides of thesingle street, of which the petty places largely consisted, as ...