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Selected Stories of Bret Harte is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Bret Harte is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of Bret Harte then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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A Phyllis of the Sierras is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Bret Harte is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of Bret Harte then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. ... Read more

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Susy, a story of the Plains is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Bret Harte is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of Bret Harte then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. ... Read more

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Dickens in Camp is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Bret Harte is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of Bret Harte then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. ... Read more

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A Sappho of Green Springs is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Bret Harte is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of Bret Harte then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. ... Read more

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Jeff Briggs's Love Story is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Bret Harte is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of Bret Harte then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. ... Read more

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Legends and Tales is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Bret Harte is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of Bret Harte then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. ... Read more

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Bret Harte was at the forefront of western American literature, paving the way for other writers, including Mark Twain. For the first time in one volume, The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Writings brings together not only Harte's best-known pieces including "The Luck of Roaring Camp" and "The Outcasts of Poker Flat," but also the original transcription of the famous 1882 essay "The Argonauts of '49" as well as a selection of his poetry, lesser-known essays, and three of his Condensed Novels-parodies of James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Dickens, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ... Read more

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Representative sampling of Harte's career
Edited by the leading Bret Harte scholar and biographer, the Penguin edition of Harte's writings includes the famous Overland Monthly stories ("The Luck of Roaring Camp" etc) as well as a briefly representative selection of Harte's poems, essays, later fiction, and his delightful "Condensed Novels." Scharnhorst's authoritative introduction includes biographical information gleaned from the editor's extensive primary research and offers informed readings of the stories. Any fan of 19th century fiction who has not read Harte's "Condensed Novels" is in for a treat. It's too bad this edition only had room for 3 of these parodies in which Harte mimicked the style of other popular authors. (I wish "Miss Mix," the Jane Eyre parody, were included.) The Scharnhorst-Penguin edition includes Harte's parodies of Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, Dickens' A Christmas Carol, and Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mysteries. The notes, while brief and unobtrusive, include curiosities that only Scharnhorst could tell us, like the fact that Conan Doyle contributed to a fund to support Harte's family after the author's death. Harte's Overland stories are widely available. This edition of his work also provides a rare glimpse into genres of the author's work that are less well known and equally delightful, selected by the scholar who knows Harte better than anyone else. ... Read more

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The origin of the title of the Queen of the Pirate Isle, may be briefly stated as follows:—
An hour after luncheon, one day, Polly, Hickory Hunt, her cousin, and Wan Lee, a Chinese page, were crossing the nursery floor in a Chinese junk. The sea was calm and the sky cloudless. Any change in the weather was as unexpected as it is in books. Suddenly a West Indian Hurricane, purely local in character and unfelt anywhere else, struck Master Hickory and threw him overboard, whence, wildly swimming for his life and carrying Polly on his back, he eventually reached a Desert Island in the closet. Here the rescued party put up a tent made of a table cloth providentially snatched from the raging billows, and from two o'clock until four, passed six weeks on the island supported only by a piece of candle, a box of matches, and two peppermint lozenges. Swimming For His Life It was at this time that it became necessary to account for Polly's existence among them, and this was only effected by an alarming sacrifice of their morality; Hickory and Wan Lee instantly became Pirates, and at once elected Polly as their Queen. The royal duties, which seemed to be purely maternal, consisted in putting the Pirates to bed after a day of rapine and bloodshed, and in feeding them with liquorice water through a quill in a small bottle.

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Child Queen
An adventure story of nine year old Polly and one of her many personas. Written in a time before political correctness, it may still be good reading for pre-adolescent children. Although some of the words are more advanced than I would think appropriate, this book would make a decent work for an early reader or as a bedtime story, short enough for one session but involved enough for children that have graduated beyond Hop On Pop and Go Dog Go, yet are not quite ready for lengthier stories like Dr. Doolittle and Stewart Little. P-) ... Read more

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An unabridged edition to include The Luck of Roaring Camp, The Outcasts of Poker Flat, and Tennessee's Partner ... Read more

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Cheering On the Underdog
Harte's stories are written with the underdog as the central characters.In "The Luck of Roaring Camp" there is a most motley crew of characters.They all seem to be down and out, or on hard times.
When a baby is born in camp, and it's mother dies... the young one brings luck to the camp.
Harte's language and characterizations are pure old west.If you enjoy westerns this book is for you.The ironic humor and down and out characters make for entertaining reading.

Excellence
Harte's capacity to capture the sense of humanity beneath often typecast characters, deliver an emotional punch ending, and capture the reader's mind's eye with fluid imagery is astounding.Every piece in here is gold...now RUSH and order this book.(pa-da-ching) ... Read more

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Snow-Bound at Eagle's by Bret Harte

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These fifteen stories bring the California Gold Rush to life with their boisterous assemblage of rough-clad miners, pistol-packing preachers, iron-willed women, and philosophical gamblers. Theirs was an unpredictable world, filled with gold strikes and freak tragedies, when the wisdom of the gambler sometimes counted for more than that of the preacher; when normal rules were tossed aside and "the strongest man had but three fingers on his right hand; the best shot had but one eye."

A master storyteller, Harte weaves tales that seem to come directly from the campfire, where the spinning of yarns and swapping of lies were the highest form of entertainment. The stories presented in this volume, among his best, still have the power to engage us completely, to make us laugh out loud, and perhaps most surprisingly, to bring a tear to the eye. ... Read more

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This is a well-rounded book about a man who kills himself.
John Oakhurst, on death row is outside in a nerby camp.Then one day, aparently killed himself. ... Read more

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