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...
SELECTED LETTERS OF BRET HARTE Gary Scharnhorst, Editor University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1997. Illustrations, notes, index. xv + 464 pp. $34.95. In "Rehabilitating Bret Harte" (Documentary Editing, March 1997), Gary Scharnhorst, author of Bret Harte's California (1990), lamented that "Harte's writings [had...
Bret Harte's stories and Bret Harte himself continue to be subjects of considerable interest. In spite of critical dismissal he is reprinted and re-read. People who read beyond the three or four most frequently anthologized stories are surprised by the wide range of his...
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