Bret Harte

Contents: - Washington Irving. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Edgar Allan Poe. The Gold Bug - Herman Melville. Bartleby, the Scrivener - Bret Harte ...

There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.

Step into the rugged world of The Luck of Roaring Camp, where rough-hewn miners, chance, and the untamed frontier collide in unexpected ways. Bret...

Francis Bret Harte was born on 25th August 1836 in Albany New York. As a young boy Harte developed an early love of books and reading. He first published at the tender age of 11, his satirical poem ‘Autumn Musings’.

Francis Bret Harte was born on 25th August 1836 in Albany New York. As a young boy Harte developed an early love of books and reading. He first published at the tender age of 11, his satirical poem ‘Autumn Musings’.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that are difficult to achieve elsewhere.

Bret Harte 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....

A Chinese boy, an Indian and a wolf-like dog are outcasts, true friends and marvelous pranksters - in a town that's running out of patience....

The Man of No Account is the story of a man from the East Coast whose failed California experiment gave him the title. He is returning home aboard a passenger steamer and is often the butt of jokes among the other passengers. Ultimately, the ship is lost at sea....

"A Convert of the Mission" is about a California minister in need of rehabilitation to regain the health of his body and spirit. He follows the orders of his doctor to go somewhere and change his habits and way of life....

Bret Harte (1836-1902) was an American writer and poet, most famous for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush....

Although American author Bret Harte is most readily associated with stories about the West, it is his skill with characterization that distinguishes him from the hundreds of others. This charming collection of Harte's short stories focuses on life in old California....

Bret Harte paints a timeless portrait of undesirables who are forced to leave a self-righteous town, and who, in the face of oncoming winter and in the company of a pair of innocents, learn to become bigger than themselves....

Poker Flat is cleaning house. John Oakhurst is allowed to leave of his own accord along with a few others who didn’t quite match society’s ideals. Maybe they got off good....

This is a collection of tales of the California Gold Rush era by the Western author Bret Harte. It's a mix of local color, drama, and humor....

This collection features a selection of classic short stories and poems by legendary Western authors Stephen Crane, Bret Harte, and Jack London....

Catch the holiday spirit with this magical collection of beloved Christmas tales....

Originally published in Harte's 1875 short-story collection The Tales of the Argonauts, "How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar" is set in California in the early 1860s....

A great new collection of classic short fiction, brilliantly read by a selection of narrators....

This Raging Bull Publishing Box Set contains three classic Western books....