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Bret Harte was born on August 25, 1836, in Albany, New York.
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Bret Harte's Collected Works contained 5 works written by 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. These are the 5 works of Bret Harte in this book: 1. Condensed Novels (1867) 2. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales (1870) 3. The Heathen Chinee (1870) 4. The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh (1889) 5. Barker's Luck and Other Stories (1896)
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In the 1870s Bret Harte was the most widely read and well-paid author in the United States. Stories such as The Luck of Roaring Camp--the tale of a Gold Rush community that thrilled readers upon its publication in 1868--virtually invented California as a subject for literature and exerted a profound influence on the development of the short story form in America. This collection contains his best work and demonstrates Harte's remarkable control of reader response, his treatment of repressed passion and male anxieties, and his sympathy for marginal members of frontier society.
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton,(29 May 1874 14 June 1936), better known as G. K. Chesterton, was an English writer,poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of paradox."Time magazine has observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegoriesfirst carefully turning them inside out." Chesterton is well known for his fictional priest-detective Father Brown,and for his reasoned apologetics. Even some of those who disagree with him have recognised the wide appeal of such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man.Chesterton, as a political thinker, cast aspersions on both Progressivism and Conservatism, saying, "The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected."Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an "orthodox" Christian, and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting to Catholicism from High Church Anglicanism. George Bernard Shaw, Chesterton's "friendly enemy" according to Time, said of him, "He was a man of colossal genius."Biographers have identified him as a successor to such Victorian authors as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, Cardinal John Henry Newman, and John Ruskin.Chesterton was born in Campden Hill in Kensington, London, the son of Marie Louise, née Grosjean, and Edward Chesterton.He was baptised at the age of one month into the Church of England,though his family themselves were irregularly practising Unitarians.According to his autobiography, as a young man Chesterton became fascinated with the occult and, along with his brother Cecil, experimented with Ouija boards. Chesterton was educated at St Paul's School, then attended the Slade School of Art to become an illustrator. The Slade is a department of University College London, where Chesterton also took classes in literature, but did not complete a degree in either subject....... Francis Bret Harte (August 25, 18361 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.
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Colorful, vivid stories of the California Gold Rush, the Wild West, and the Mexican War made Bret Harte one of the most popular writers of his time. The Bell-Ringer of Angels short story title is the epithet of one Alexander McGee, whose accurate aim would pierce the bull's eye of a mechanical target and cause a bell to ring. The Luck of Roaring Camp is the story of an infant born into a mining camp who changes the lives of the miners and brings them good luck, until tragedy strikes. The Outcasts of Poker Flats tells the story of several immoral characters who are cast out of their town only to show their true colors when their situation becomes dire. The Idyl of Red Gulch centers on a young schoolmistress, a drunken but charming young man, and a prostitute in a quiet, moralistic tale with a few unexpected twists and turns.
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This is a brilliant work that captures the lawlessness that prevailed in post-colonial America. The work also portrays men who were ready to fight for their rights and for the security of their families. The tough days of that era and the struggle to survive is depicted in a realistic manner.
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Hardcover with orange/yellow cloth boards. This is the Centennial Edition.
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Francis Bret Harte (August 25, 1836 May 6, 1902) was an American novelist. The Works of Bret Harte, (with an active table of contents), including: The Argonauts of North Liberty Devil's Ford The Queen of the Pirate Isle The Three Partners The Bell-Ringer of Angel's, includes Johnnyboy, Young Robin Gray, The Sheriff of Siskyou, A Rose of Glenbogie, The Mystery of the Hacienda, Chu Chu My First Book. Legends and Tales, includes The Legend of Monte Del Diablo, The Adventure of Padre Vincentio, The Legend of Devils Point, The Devil and the Broker, The Ogress of Silver Land, The Ruins of San Francisco A Night at Wingdam The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales, includes The Outcasts Of Poker Flat Miggles Tennessee's Partner The Idyl Of Red Gulch Brown Of Calaveras Muck-A-Muck: A Modern Indian Novel Selina Sedilia The Ninety-Nine Guardsmen Miss Mix Mr. Midshipman Breezy: A Naval Officer Guy Heavystone; Or, "Entire:" John Jenkins; Or, The Smoker Reformed Fantine. "La Femme." The Dweller Of The Threshold N. N. No Title Handsome Is As Handsome Does Lothaw The Haunted Man Terence Denville Mary Mcgillup The Hoodlum Band M'liss High-Water Mark A Lonely Ride The Man Of No Account Notes By Flood And Field Waiting For The Ship A Night At Wingdam The Legend Of Monte Del Diablo The Right Eye Of The Commander The Legend Of Devil's Point The Adventure Of Padre Vicentio The Devil And The Broker The Ogress Of Silver Land The Christmas Gift That Came To Rupert Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories, includes Mrs. Skaggss Husbands How Santa Claus came to Simpsons bar The Princess Bob and Her Friends The Iliad of Sandy Bar Mr.Thompsons Prodigal The Romance of Madrono Hollow The Christmas Gift That Came to Rupert Openings in the Old Trail, includes Openings in the Old Trail A Mercury of the Foot-Hills Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff The Landlord of the Big Flume Hotel A Buckeye Hollow Inheritance The Reincarnation of Smith Lanty Fosters Mistake An Ali Baba of the Sierras Miss Peggys Proteges The Goddess of Excelsior Stories in Light and Shadow Unser Karl Uncle Jim and Uncle Billy See Yup The Desborough Connections Salomy Janes Kiss The Man and the Mountain The Passing of Enriquez Tales of the Argonauts, includes The Rose of Tuolumne A Passage in the Life of Mr. John Oakhurst Wan Lee, the Pagan How Old Man Plunkett Went Home The Fool of Five Forks Baby Sylvester An Episode of Fiddletown A Jersey Centenarian
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By Henry Seidel Canby WHAT gives these characters their lasting power? Why does that highly melodramatic tragedy in the hills above Poker Flat, with its stagy reformations, and contrasts of black sinner and white innocent, hold you spellbound at the thirtieth as at the first reading? Bret Harte believed, apparently, that it was his realism which did it. He had put the Western miner into literature as he washence the applause. He had compounded his characters of good and evil as in life, thus approximating the truth, and avoiding the error of the cartoon, in which the dissolute miner was so dissolute that it was said, Theyve just put the keerds on that chap from the start. But we do not wait to be told by Californians, who still remember the red-shirt period, that Roaring Camp is not realism. The lack of it is apparent in every paragraph describing that fascinating settlement. The man who would look for Yuba Bill at Sandy Bar, would search for Pickwick in London, and Peggotty on Yarmouth Beach. Not the realism, but the idealization, of this life of the Argonauts was the prize Bret Harte gained. After all, the latter part of the introduction to his first book was more pertinent than the first, which I have just been paraphrasing, for, at the end, he admits a desire to revive the poetry of a heroic era, and to collect the material for an Iliad of the intrepid Argonauts of California. From The Short Story in English (1909).
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Bret Harte was born on August 25, 1836, in Albany, New York.
Harte had a somewhat sketchy education in the East before he followed his widowed and recently remarried mother and her family to the Pacific Coast in 1854.
There he taught school for a year, visited the Mother Lode mining country, and worked briefly for an express company.
He got his professional start between 1857 and 1860, when he was a journalist in Union, Calif. He moved to San Francisco, worked in government offices, and contributed writings to the Golden Era and the Californian which brought him prominence in literary circles. A collection of poems, The Lost Galleon, and a volume of parodies, Condensed Novels, appeared in 1867. The next year Harte became editor of a new West Coast magazine, Overland Monthly, and began to write a series of local sketches.
When stories set in the mining country, such as "The Luck of Roaring Camp" and "The Outcasts of Poker Flat, " were read and reprinted in the East and elsewhere, Harte skyrocketed to fame. His renown increased when his comic ballad "Plain Language from Truthful James"—relating how Ah Sin, a Chinese gambler, outwitted two confidence men-became nationally famous.
By the time Harte's first collection of western local-color stories appeared in book form in 1870, eastern publishers were competing for Harte's services. In 1871 he signed a contract with the Atlantic Monthly at a record figure for an American writer—$10, 000 for 12 monthly contributions. He left California, never to return, and journeyed eastward, receiving a triumphant welcome everywhere.
In New England he was greeted as an equal by the writers Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and William Dean Howells and was lionized and toasted to the point of spiritual and moral breakdown. With personal and family difficulties, his work slumped. It was at about this time that Harte collaborated with Twain on Ah Sin, a play based on Plain Language from Truthful James; anti-Chinese sentiment was even stronger then (and would culminate in passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882); the play was performed for only a few months in 1877.
After indifferent success on the lecture circuit, Harte in 1878 accepted consulships in Krefeld, Germany, and later in Glasgow, Scotland. In 1885 he retired to London and never returned to the United States.
Francis Bret Harte died on May 5, 1902, in Camberley, England, of throat cancer. He is buried at Frimley.
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(Mark Twain once famously said "there was but one solitary...)
(Colorful, vivid stories of the California Gold Rush, the ...)
(This is a brilliant work that captures the lawlessness th...)
(In the 1870s Bret Harte was the most widely read and well...)
(Francis Bret Harte (August 25, 1836 May 6, 1902) was an...)
(Gilbert Keith Chesterton,(29 May 1874 14 June 1936), be...)
(This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curat...)
(Hardcover with orange/yellow cloth boards. This is the Ce...)
On August 11, 1862, in San Rafael, California, Bret Harte married Anna Griswold, they had several children.
