Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Short Stories by Bret Harte

Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Short Stories by Bret Harte

In 1870, the young San Francisco based writer and editor Bret Harte (1836 1902) first compiled a single-volume edition of his rousing stories of life in the Wild West. Entitled The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches, the book propelled him almost overnight from local celebrity to American literary lion. Four of the most famous of those tales are included in this collection: the title story, The Outcasts of Poker Flat, Tennessee's Partner, and M'liss.
Additional selections include A Protegee of Jack Hamlin and An Ingenue of the Sierras, both written later in Harte's life and featuring lively casts of colorful characters in settings ranging from a stagecoach to a Sacramento River steamer. They display the author's enthralling storytelling style at full strength crisply observant, rich in ironic humor, and offering an engaging mix of sentiment and wit. Harte's style exercised a deep influence on the American short story genre and set a future course for writers of Western fiction, including Owen Wisterand Zane Grey.

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Bret Harte (1836-1902) was born in Albany, New York, and was raised in New York City. He had no formal education, but he inherited a love for books. Harte wrote for the San Franciscan Golden Era paper. There he published his first condensed novels, which were brilliant parodies of the works of well-known authors, such as Dickens and Cooper. Later, he became clerk in the US branch mint. This job gave Harte time to also work for the Overland Monthly, where he published his world-famous Luck of the Roaring Camp and commissioned Mark Twain to write weekly articles. In 1871, Harte was hired by the Atlantic Monthly for $10,000 to write twelve stories a year, which was the highest figure paid to an American writer at the time.

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ISBN 13	9780486272719
ISBN 10	0486272710
Title	Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Short Stories
Author	Bret Harte
Series	Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Dover Publications Inc.
Year published	2015-10-21
Number of pages	96
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.