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Bret Harte

East and West: PoemsBret Harte East and West: Poems Part I A Greyport Legend (1797.) They ran through the streets of the seaport town;They peered from the decks of the ships that lay:The cold sea-fog that came whitening downWas never as cold or white as they. "Ho, Starbuck and Pinckney and Tenter...

The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other TalesBret Harte The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales / With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers PUBLISHERS’ NOTE In 1882, it was felt to be desirable that Mr. Harte’s scattered work should be brought together in convenient form...

Tennessee's PartnerBret Harte Tennessee's Partner The Introduction When Marshall's discovery caused a sudden influx of thousands of adventurers from all classes and almost all countries, the conditions of government in California were almost the worst possible. Though the Mexican system was unpop...

Bocetos californianosBret Harte Bocetos californianos A principios de 1902 falleció en Londres un americano cuya vida podría parecer singular aun en su país natal, donde por cierto abundan los hombres que se complacen en desafiar las circunstancias de una existencia azarosa y llena de incertidumb...

Legends and TalesBret Harte Legends and Tales THE LEGEND OF MONTE DEL DIABLO The cautious reader will detect a lack of authenticity in the following pages. I am not a cautious reader myself, yet I confess with some concern to the absence of much documentary evidence in support of the singular inc...

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Selected Stories of Bret HarteBret Harte Selected Stories of Bret Harte INTRODUCTION The life of Bret Harte divides itself, without adventitious forcing, into four quite distinct parts. First, we have the precocious boyhood, with its eager response to the intellectual stimulation of cultured pare...

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Urban SketchesBret Harte Urban Sketches A VENERABLE IMPOSTOR As I glance across my table, I am somewhat distracted by the spectacle of a venerable head whose crown occasionally appears beyond, at about its level. The apparition of a very small hand—whose fingers are bunchy and have the appearance...

Salomy JaneBret Harte Salomy Jane I A Kiss and an Escape Only one shot had been fired. It had gone wide of its mark,—the ringleader of the Vigilantes,—and had left Red Pete, who had fired it, covered by their rifles and at their mercy. For his hand had been cramped by hard riding, and his eye dis...