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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. We offer now some samples of his diversity in a collection of his short stories: “The Outcasts of Poker Flats”, “Tennessee’s Partner”, “The Idyl of Red Gulch”, “Brown of Calaveras”, “Muck-A-Muck”, “The Ninety-Nine Guardsmen”, “Mr. Midshipman Breezy”, “The Legend of Monte Del Diablo”, and more.

Included in this volume: "Watson!" by Captain A. E. Dingle; The Adventure of the Diamond Necklace, by G. F. Forrest; The Stolen Cigar-Case, by Bret Harte; The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes, by O. Henry; and Mr. Raffles Holmes, by John Kendrick Bangs.

Here is a tale that concerns the incredible power of friendship. The movie Tennessee's Partner (1955), starring John Payne and Ronald Reagan, was based on this story.

This amusing and sometimes poignant collection also includes: '"How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar," "An Heiress of Red Dog," "Uncle Jim and Uncle Billy," "The Convalescence of Jack Hamlin" and "Chu Chu".

Experience the Old West in this evocative collection of Bret Harte stories. More than 100 years after his short stories began appearing, Harte's influence on the American literary tradition has become legendary. His character, Jack Hamlin, is the template for many a poised, chivalrous Western gambler, and Miss Mary is the prototypical schoolmarm.

A motley crew, banished from a Western town, find strength, and weakness, in each other.

The Luck of Roaring Camp is a collection of short stories from one of the most unusual of Western writers, in that he only spent 18 years of his life in America. First published in 1870, this new Raging Bull Edition contains the original text as well as background articles including: "Bret Harte - A Golden Age Poet" and "The American Gold Rush - California's 19th Century Success".

The American West. A landscape hewn in vastness as its rips from Plains, to deserts, to mountain, to ocean overlaid by waves of emigration of peoples either dispossessed or searching for a new life and the American dream. These are their stories. Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.

Theatre Royal. The very name summons up something of grandeur and eloquence. And it was. Hosted by Laurence Olivier, these big-name productions also included the creme de la creme of acting talents from John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, and Orson Welles to Trevor Howard, Michael Redgrave and Olivier himself. They were based on works by the world's leading authors, among them Charles Dickens, Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Anton Chekhov. These are but a few of whose company we shall be keeping as we raise the curtain on our first instalment of theatrical history.

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’. Expecting praise he received anything but and later wrote "Such a shock was their ridicule to me that I wonder that I ever wrote another line of verse." He was instrumental in propelling the short story genre forward and brought tales of the Old West and the Gold Rush to a greater audience.

Die Kurzgeschichte ist das Genre der Vielfalt. Sie kann alles sein: heiter, abenteuerlich, nachdenklich, frivol, erotisch, schauerlich, satirisch und vieles andere mehr. Sie ist immer spannend und auf den Punkt genau erzählt. Lassen Sie sich von unserer Auswahl weltberühmter Kurzgeschichten in unbekannte und bunte Welten entführen. Mit dabei: Die schwarze Katze (E. A. Poe), Catarina und die Nachtigall (G. Boccaccio), Rezepte gegen Grippe (K. Tucholsky), König Zucker (F. Glauser), Der Glücksbringer von Roaring Camp (B. Harte), Zeitungswesen in Tennessee (M. Twain).

This story, one of Harte's most anthologized, first appeared in The Luck of Roading Camp and Other Stories.

Bret Harte is best known for his stories of the pioneering days in California, so this humorous parody of English Gothic novels is a delightful departure. Harte sets his unlikely tale in Regency England with all the cliches and plot conventions present in abundance. The two main characters Lady Selina and Edgardo hide their amoral pasts from each other, unaware that they're a perfectly suited couple. In the mix are mysterious villains, dark secrets, past scandals, forbidden romance, hidden panels, murders, ghosts, all ending with the requisite deus ex machina conclusion.

Jimcin Recordings presents Three tales of Christmas. From the spirit of the holiday, warming the hearts of rugged miners to exalted "wise men" on a snowy journey to an incredible journey to Thompson Hall. We hope you enjoy this chronicle of the season.

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’. Expecting praise he received anything but and later wrote "Such a shock was their ridicule to me that I wonder that I ever wrote another line of verse." By age 13 his formal education was at an end and four years later the family moved to California. It was here that he found the stories and inspiration for the works that would seal his fame across the literary world.

Society has forgiven Jo Corbin for killing a man, but can he forgive himself? Will the Postmistress lose all in a bid to help a friend escape justice? Will the new teaching assistant's unorthodox ways tame the unruly pioneer children? These are just three of the nine wonderful short stories from Bret Harte, set in wild and wooly 19th-century California.

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 and, like the rest of the tales in that collection, features the gold-seeking Argonauts. In this tale, like many of Harte's others, the folly and grit of human existence balance any good intentions, good cheer, or hope, resulting in a more complicated and somewhat bleak ending than is commonly found in most Christmas tales.

When a Cherokee Sal dies giving birth to her son in a prospecting camp, the gold miners adopt him as their own. They name him Thomas Luck, as he seems to indicate a change in fortune for the camp. The miners start to turn their lives around in order to be a better example to the shining boy. But just as their ship seems to have come in, disaster hits, and it soon goes out again in this gripping yet tragic work of historical fiction.

Bret Harte (August 25, 1836 – May 6, 1902) was a celebrated American author and poet, renowned for his vivid portrayals of pioneering life in California. His stories capture the spirit of the Gold Rush era and the diverse characters that shaped the American West. (Summary from Wikipedia)

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