Bibliograph

Browne's folly, the Doliver romance and other pieces, tales and sketches

Type

Label

Browne's folly, the Doliver romance and other pieces, tales and sketches

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Browne's folly

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Start classics

Sub title

the Doliver romance and other pieces, tales and sketches

Summary

MY DEAR COUSIN:-I should be very glad to write a story, as you request, for the benefit of the Essex Institute, or for any other purpose that might be deemed desirable by my native townspeople. But it is now many years since the epoch of the "Twice-Told Tales," and the "Mosses from an Old Manse"; and my mind seems to have lost the plan and measure of those little narratives, in which it was once so unprofitably fertile. I can write no story, therefore; but (rather than be entirely wanting to the occasion) I will endeavor to describe a spot near Salem, on which it was once my purpose to locate such a dreamy fiction as you now demand of me

Target audience

adult

Classification