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Author : Bret Harte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : American literature
ISBN : OSU:32435018177964
Author : Bret Harte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1800
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:743373737
Author : Bret Harte,August Nemo
Publisher : Tacet Books
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783967994421
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
Author : Francis Bret Harte
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066441814
The story by American author Bret Harte is about the birth of a baby boy in a 19th-century gold prospecting camp. The boy's mother, Cherokee Sal, died at his birth, so the men of Roaring Camp decided to take care of him themselves. They soon noticed that since his birth, the child brought luck to the camp and concluded, the boy was their good luck charm. Thus, the miners christen the boy Thomas Luck. As the story evolves, many miners decide to refine their behavior and refrain from gambling and fighting, thus making life in the camp really better.
Author : Bret Harte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:926449374
Author : Bret Harte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015063921046
Author : Bret Harte
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOMDLP:abx8712:0001.001
A collection of Sketches, stories and Bohemian papers by Bret Harte.
Author : Bret Harte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1072714547
Author : Bret Harte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004-04-30
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 1594566240
Author : Bret Harte
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385405943
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Author : Bret Harte
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1535471069
"The Luck of Roaring Camp" is a short story by American author Bret Harte. It was first published in the August 1868 issue of the Overland Monthly and helped push Harte to international prominence.The story is about the birth of a baby boy in a 19th-century gold prospecting camp. The boy's mother, Cherokee Sal, dies in childbirth, so the men of Roaring Camp must raise it themselves. Believing the child to be a good luck charm, the miners christen the boy Thomas Luck. Afterwards, they decide to refine their behavior and refrain from gambling and fighting. At the end of the story, however, Luck and a villager, Kentuck, perish in a flash flood that strikes the camp. Roaring Camp was a real place. It was a goldmining settlement on the Mokulmne River in Amador County, California. It was home to forty-niners seeking gold in and around the river; it is now a privately owned tourist attraction.The story's flood theme may have been inspired by California's Great Flood of 1862, which Harte witnessed.The story takes place in a small struggling mining town located in the foothills of the California mountains at the time of the gold rush. The camp is suffering from a long string of bad luck. With only one woman in their midst, it seems as though the miners have no future. However, the tide turns when a small boy is born. "Thomas Luck" is the first newborn the camp has seen in ages; things are looking up. The miners become cheerful, foliage begins to grow, and there is talk of building a hotel to attract outsiders. Unfortunately, the hope is wiped out by the sudden death of Luck in a flood. Water brought gold to the gulches, giving miners their first glimmer of hope. And water takes away what seems their last glimmer-Luck. Francis Bret Harte (August 25, 1836 - May 5, 1902) 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. In a career spanning more than four decades, he wrote poetry, fiction, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches in addition to fiction. As he moved from California to the eastern U.S. to Europe, he incorporated new subjects and characters into his stories, but his Gold Rush tales have been most often reprinted, adapted, and admired.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781613100332
Author : Bret Harte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:490557830
Author : Bret Harte
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1482542331
We were eight, including the driver. We had not spoken during the passage of the last six miles, since the jolting of the heavy vehicle over the roughening road had spoiled the Judge's last poetical quotation. The tall man beside the Judge was asleep, his arm passed through the swaying strap and his head resting upon it—altogether a limp, helpless-looking object, as if he had hanged himself and been cut down too late. The French lady on the back seat was asleep, too, yet in a half-conscious propriety of attitude, shown even in the disposition of the handkerchief which she held to her forehead and which partially veiled her face.
Author : Bret Harte
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783849647049
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 ...