Track‘s End

Carruth, Hayden, 1862-1932Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Word count: 244K words
Chapters: 25

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Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Track's End by Hayden CarruthAuthor: Carruth, Hayden, 1862-1932,Language: English, Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature, Release Date: May 19, 2009

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Carruth, Hayden, 1862-1932 Author · American · 1862–1932

Hayden Carruth (1862–1932) was an American poet and editor who long served as editor-in-chief of the magazine Women's Home Companion, exercising a certain influence in periodical editing and literary dissemination of his time. Two of his works are held in the collection, Track's End and The Voyage of the Rattletrap. Because public information is limited, the details of his life and the full scope of his writing are difficult to present completely; yet the surviving works suggest that his writing centers on travel impressions and everyday narrative, in a plain and natural style that attends to scenes and details, bearing the marks of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American popular literature. As an editor, he accumulated rich experience with words in magazine work, and this experience informs his personal writing, giving his works a certain care in readability and narrative pace. Overall, Carruth combined the identities of editor and poet, and his works offer a sidelight on American periodical culture and popular writing of that era.