The complete online text of Dickens in Camp 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...

"HERE's richness." Not Mr Squeers's milk and water, but Peter Ackroyd's own individual blend of milk and cream. Here is a contemporary novelist of stature meditating upon a novelist of demonic energy and genius. Containing nearly 1,200 pages, it is as long as...

"David Copperfield," which has been described as Charles Dickens's "favorite child" among his books, gets the full-dress "Masterpiece Theatre" treatment on Sunday and Monday nights at 9 on Channel 2. It stars the ubiquitous Bob Hoskins ("Who Killed Roger Rabbit," "Mona Lisa") as...