Author | : Bret Harte |
Publisher | : Dramatic Publishing |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780871295477 |
Author | : Bret Harte |
Publisher | : Dramatic Publishing |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780871295477 |
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.
Author | : Paul Negri |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2002-07-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0486421198 |
Featuring 19 of the finest works in the American short-story tradition, this compilation includes: "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Bartleby" by Herman Melville, "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway, plus stories by Hawthorne, Twain, Cather, and others.
Author | : Bret Harte |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 2015-12-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781519623621 |
America has always had a fascination with the Wild West, and schoolchildren grow up learning about famous Westerners like Wyatt Earp, Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill Hicock, as well as the infamous shootout at O.K. Corral. Pioneering and cowboys and Indians have been just as popular in Hollywood, with Westerners helping turn John Wayne and Clint Eastwood into legends on the silver screen. HBO's Deadwood, about the historical 19th century mining town on the frontier was popular last decade. Not surprisingly, a lot has been written about the West, and one of the best known writers about the West in the 19th century was Francis Bret Harte (1836-1902), who wrote poetry and short stories during his literary career. Harte was on the West Coast by the 1860s, placing himself in perfect position to document and depict frontier life.
Author | : Bret Harte |
Publisher | : Jazzybee Verlag |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3849647048 |
There was surprise and some disappointment in Rough and Ready when it was known that Dick Spindler intended to give a "Family" Christmas party at his own house. That he should take an early opportunity to celebrate his good fortune and show hospitality was only expected from the man who had just made a handsome " strike " on his claim ; but that it should assume so conservative, old-fashioned, and respectable a form was quite unlocked-for by Rough and Ready, and was thought by some a trifle pretentious ...
Author | : Bret Harte |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 1932 |
Genre | : Adventure stories |
ISBN | : |
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.