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Author : Bret Harte
Publisher : New York : Avon Publishing Company
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:12153234
Author : Bret Harte
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0871295474
Author : Bret Harte
Publisher : Watermill Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0816704619
A collection of eleven stories by Bret Harte.
Author : Michael Kowalewski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1996-02-23
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0521565596
The American West of myth and legend has always exerted a strong hold on the popular imagination, and the essays in Reading the West examine some of the basis of that fascination. Reading the West, first published in 1996, is a collection of critical essays by writers, independent scholars and critics on the literature of the American West in the last two centuries. It showcases new ways of reading and understanding western writing. Arguing for the importance of 'place' in literature, these essays explore what makes representative literary works 'western'. They also explore the multicultural and ecological dimensions of western writing. This volume helps enrich our understanding of a distinguished body of literary work which has sometimes been unjustly ignored. It deals not only with literature but with the changing conception of the West in the American imagination.
Author : Bret Harte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:222447584
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:233801339
Author : Bret Harte
Publisher : Signet Classics
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0451515943
Francis Bret Harte (August 25, 1836- May 5, 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. Bret Harte was born in Albany, New York, on August 25, 1836. He was named Francis Brett Hart after his great-grandfather, Francis Brett. When he was young his father, Henry, changed the spelling of the family name from Hart to Harte. Henry's father - Bret's grandfather - was Bernard Hart, an Orthodox Jewish immigrant who flourished as a merchant, becoming one of the founders of the New York Stock Exchange. Later, Francis preferred to be known by his middle name, but he spelled it with only one "t", becoming Bret Harte. An avid reader as a boy, Harte published his first work at age 11, a satirical poem titled "Autumn Musings," now lost. Rather than attracting praise, the poem resulted in his family's ridicule. As an adult, he recalled to a friend, "Such a shock was their ridicule to me that I wonder that I ever wrote another line of verse." His formal schooling ended when he was 13 in 1849. He moved to California in 1853, later working there in a number of capacities, including miner, teacher, messenger, and journalist. He spent part of his life in the northern California coastal town of Union (now Arcata), a settlement on Humboldt Bay that was established as a provisioning center for mining camps in the interior. The 1860 massacre of between 80 and 200 Wiyots at the village of Tuluwat was well documented historically and was reported in San Francisco and New York by Harte. When serving as assistant editor for the Northern Californian, Harte editorialized about the slayings while his boss, Stephen G. Whipple, was temporarily absent, leaving Harte in charge of the paper. Harte published a detailed account condemning the event, writing, "a more shocking and revolting spectacle never was exhibited to the eyes of a Christian and civilized people. Old women wrinkled and decrepit lay weltering in blood, their brains dashed out and dabbled with their long grey hair. Infants scarcely a span long, with their faces cloven with hatchets and their bodies ghastly with wounds." After he published the editorial, his life was threatened and he was forced to flee one month later. Harte quit his job and moved to San Francisco, where an anonymous letter published in a city paper is attributed to him, describing widespread community approval of the massacre. In addition, no one was ever brought to trial, despite the evidence of a planned attack and references to specific individuals, including a rancher named Larabee and other members of the unofficial militia called the Humboldt Volunteers.
Author : Bret Harte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1519666977
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 : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385416970
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Author : Bret Harte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:54005566
Author : Martin Harris
Publisher : D&B Publishing
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-23
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781912862009
Introduced shortly after the United States declared its independence, poker’s growth and development has paralleled that of America itself. As a gambling game with mass appeal, poker has been played by presidents and peasants, at kitchen tables and final tables, for matchsticks and millions. First came the hands, then came the stories – some true, some pure bluffs, and many in between. In Poker & Pop Culture: Telling the Story of America’s Favorite Card Game, Martin Harris shares these stories while chronicling poker’s progress from 19th-century steamboats and saloons to 21st-century virtual tables online, including: Poker on the Mississippi Poker in the Movies Poker in the Old West Poker on the Newsstand Poker in the Civil War Poker in Literature Poker on the Bookshelf Poker in Music Poker in the White House Poker on Television Poker During Wartime Poker on the Computer From Mark Twain to “Dogs Playing Poker” to W.C. Fields to John Wayne to A Streetcar Named Desire to the Cold War to Kenny Rogers to ESPN to Star Trek: The Next Generation and beyond, Poker & Pop Culture provides a comprehensive survey of cultural productions in which poker is of thematic importance, showing how the game’s portrayal in the mainstream has increased poker’s relevance to American history and shaped the way we think about the game and its significance.
Author : Martin Scofield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139457651
This wide-ranging introduction to the short story tradition in the United States of America traces the genre from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century with Irving, Hawthorne and Poe via Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Faulkner to O'Connor and Carver. The major writers in the genre are covered in depth with a general view of their work and detailed discussion of a number of examples of individual stories. The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story offers a comprehensive and accessible guide to this rich literary tradition. It will be invaluable to students and readers looking for critical approaches to the short story and wishing to deepen their understanding of how authors have approached and developed this fascinating and challenging genre. Further reading suggestions are included to explore the subject in more depth. This is an invaluable overview for all students and readers of American fiction.
Author : Bret Harte
Publisher : Amereon Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 0884115925
Presents nine stories from the famous chronicler of frontier life in the American West.
Author : Marietta Chicorel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Short stories
ISBN : UCSC:32106020263221
Author : Bret Harte
Publisher : Boston : Houghton, Mifflin
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Western stories
ISBN : HARVARD:32044024572422