The complete online text of East and West 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...

Ah, Long Island _ land of Amy and Joey, birthplace of the bellicose Baldwin brothers, where Lizzie Grubman plowed her SUV through a nightclub parking lot and Billy Joel slammed three cars into assorted inanimate objects.Tabloid fodder, all _ but with the Lohans of Merrick,...

Gerlinde Schultze beamed as she lifted up her week-old puppy."This is Xaver, a purebred East German shepherd," she said proudly, kissing the dark whelp on its wet snout."You can't possibly find a better bloodline anywhere _ especially not in West Germany."As the country celebrates 17...

The Iraq war has endangered the lives of Christians across the Middle East, the Archbishop of Canterbury said in a commentary published Saturday that criticized the U.S.-led coalition.The failure to develop a strategy to prevent Christians from being seen as "supporters of the crusading West"...