The complete online text of Clarence 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...

Clarence Stoltzfus, 87, of 69 Holly Dr., New Holland, formerly of Morgantown, died Thursday, May 8, 2008 at the Essa Flory Hospice, Lancaster. Born in Morgantown, he was the son of the late Stephen H. and Sadie (Kurtz) Stoltzfus. His first wife, L....

CITYSTATE Brooklyn Boss Leaves Trail of Campaign and Judicial Scandals BROOKLYN DEMOCRATIC BOSS CLARENCE NORMAN TOOK OVER THE COVER OF THE 'DAILY NEWS' ONCE THIS WEEK, AND WAS THE SUBJECT OF A COMBINED FOUR FULL PAGES OF SCANDAL COPY. JUST A COUPLE...

As Clarence Norman's fourth trial gets underway -- this one for allegedly selling judgeships in Brooklyn -- I came across an recent back-issue of Hitz magazine that features a page-long interview with the former Brooklyn lawmaker. The kind-of-poignant end quote: "God forgives but life does...

In a steamy Tennessee courtroom in July 1925, Clarence Darrow seemed to face a setback from which he couldn't save his case. He was there to defend John Scopes, a teacher who made himself a test case for a state law making it a crime...