The Luck of Roaring Camp

The Luck of Roaring Camp
Author: Bret Harte
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 559
Release: 2014-12-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1504001648

The defining stories from one of America’s great wits In the mid-nineteenth century, the Wild West grabbed ahold of American consciousness and never let go. With the discovery of gold, all eyes and wagons turned westward. This collection of stories brings readers back to the American frontier. In “The Luck of Roaring Camp,” when a Native American woman dies in childbirth, the miners take it upon themselves to raise the child. Naming the baby Luck, the miners learn more about responsibility and class through raising the boy than they have through anything else in their lives. Other stories in the collection include classic prospecting-set short stories such as “Tennessee’s Partner” and “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” and the short novels “Muck-a-Muck” and “Selina Sedilia.” In this timeless collection, Bret Harte has captured the California gold rush as no other writer could. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Writings

The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Writings
Author: Bret Harte
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2001-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780140439175

Bret Harte was at the forefront of western American literature, paving the way for other writers, including Mark Twain. For the first time in one volume, The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Writings brings together not only Harte's best-known pieces including "The Luck of Roaring Camp" and "The Outcasts of Poker Flat," but also the original transcription of the famous 1882 essay "The Argonauts of '49" as well as a selection of his poetry, lesser-known essays, and three of his Condensed Novels -parodies of James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Dickens, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Stories

The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Stories
Author: Bret Harte
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 722
Release: 2018-01-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9780483630796

Excerpt from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Stories: Including Earlier Papers, Spanish and American Legends, Tales of the Argonauts, Etc Horace clenches this idea. (and what better testimony can there be to the reception or perception of its truth, than in the fact that every grammar-school boy, and every who has enjoyed a decent classical education, instinct goes back to his Horace for a good and telling line whe Wants to point a moral, or to shoot folly as it shaft tipped with Wit 1) 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.

The Luck of Roaring Camp

The Luck of Roaring Camp
Author: Bret Harte
Publisher:
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1899
Genre: Gold miners
ISBN:

A collection of Sketches, stories and Bohemian papers by Bret Harte.