Selected Stories of Bret Harte

Selected Stories of Bret Harte
Author: Bret Harte
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2019-11-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Harte was a master storyteller best known for his short stories featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. Harte moved from New York to California after working for a while in a lawyer's office and then in a merchant's counting house.

7 best short stories by Bret Harte

7 best short stories by Bret Harte
Author: Bret Harte
Publisher: Tacet Books
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2020-05-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3967994422

Bret Harte was the first American writer from the West Coast to gain an international reputation. He was instrumental in introducing frontier literature to eastern audiences. His stories established many of the basic characteristics of the western genre: rough, sarcastic humor, rustic dialect, and character types such as good-natured gamblers, greedy bankers, and prostitutes with hearts of gold.We selected seven short stories from this author so that you can know and appreciate his work:The Luck of Roaring CampThe Outcasts of Poker Flat Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff A Convert of the MissionA Widow of the Santa Ana Valley A Yellow DogMelons

Selected Stories of Bret Harte

Selected Stories of Bret Harte
Author: Bret Harte
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2019-02-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781796471373

Francis Brett Hart, known as Bret Harte, was an American short-story writer and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush.

Selected Stories and Sketches

Selected Stories and Sketches
Author: Bret Harte
Publisher:
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1995
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

BL The first critical edition for thirty years Inventor of California as a literary subject, Bret Harte made pioneering contributions to the development of the short-story form in America, and inspired countless imitators. This edition includes Harte's best work. It contains the complete text of The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches, as well as some powerful stories, and two autobiographical sketches that have long been out of print.

Bret Harte

Bret Harte
Author: Axel Nissen
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2000
Genre: Authors, American
ISBN: 9781617033599

Miggles

Miggles
Author: Bret Harte
Publisher:
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1899
Genre:
ISBN:

How Santa Claus Came To Simpson's Bar

How Santa Claus Came To Simpson's Bar
Author: Bret Harte
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Total Pages: 23
Release: 2015
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3849647056

How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar, is universally conceded to rank among Bret Harte's best tales.