The complete online text of A Waif of the Plains by Bret Harte.

Francis Brett Harte (1837-1902), known as Bret Harte, an American poet and fiction writer who specialized in local color and regional stories, set the fashion in fiction for a number of writers in the era following the Civil War. Bret Harte, born in Alba...

Bret Harte was the first Pacific slope writer to gain an international reputation for his work. As a deft observer of character and conditions, he introduced to a worldwide audience the picturesque life of mid-nineteenth-century northern California. Yet...

Bret Harte was the first Pacific slope writer to gain an international reputation for his work. As a deft observer of character and conditions, he introduced to a worldwide audience the picturesque life of mid-nineteenth-century northern California. Yet...

Working my way through the Rubens exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts I paused to study "The Crowning of Diana," a bosky scene involving the hefty goddess and an attendant clutch of well-upholstered nymphs. So much billowing flesh. Shouldn't someone tell them...

The Guildford Spectrum leisure centre witnessed something special on Saturday night; the hundred or so people present registered appreciation by raising their level of applause from polite to warm. Eight months hence in the Atlanta Georgia Dome the response is likely to be tumultuous....