The complete online text of Salomy Jane 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...

"IS THIS MY pale little elf? Is this my mustard-seed? This little sunny-faced girl with the dimpled cheek and rosy lips; the satin- smooth hazel hair and the radiant hazel eyes?" So marvels Mr. Rochester the morning after having proposed marriage to the title...

Regarding playwright Jane Martin, director Jon Jory might be pulling the wool over the drama world's eyes-- but no one's talking Don't expect to see playwright Jane Martin at the world premiere of her "Good Boys" at the Guthrie Lab this August. The...