King Midas: A Romance (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Springtime and harvest is published under peculiar circumstances, about which the author desires that the reader should know; because the work is one with his life and the hope of it is his ideal, he cannot accomplish his purpose without telling about himself; it is with a high aim that he indulges in this egotism.

The author is twenty-two years of age; seven years ago he had made up his mind that his business in the world was to be a novelist. He has always been an intense worker, living in seclusion and giving every minute of his life to study. He has a whole trunkful of bad manuscripts, and enough juvenile stories published to fill a score of large volumes, stories which served to keep him alive, while he studied to fit himself for deeper work.

For three years he had been dreaming of a novel which he might write when he was strong; last spring, because his heart was shaken with the beauty of it, he went away to wrestle with his vision. Because he knew he had to give all his soul to the labor, he cut himself off absolutely from the world,-found a little cabin in the wilds of Quebec, Where for five months he lived entirely alone, doing a work so fearful that now, as he looks back upon it, it makes him tremble.

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