A Citizen of the Twilight José Asuncion Silva (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Citizen of the Twilight: Jose Asuncion Silva He was about twenty-three when Don Ricardo died, leaving his affairs in a sad state, and Jose as eldest son took up the business in the hope of paying off the debts. His mother's beauty and brilliancy and worldly gifts, the rare loveliness and charm of his sister Elvira, the little ones, still in the nursery, for the three brothers in between had died in infancy - all these were but so many irresistible demands upon him, constituted rights for so many help less people. Thenceforth he looked on his literary preoccupations as a sort of criminal vice, to be hidden from all but his friends. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.