The complete online text of Urban Sketches 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...

"Unitard," an off-off-Broadway hit now in Boston, is a hilarious and scathing attack on today's super-sophisticated, media- electrified urban culture. In a fast-paced relay of blackout solo routines, Mike Albo, Nora Burns, and David Ilku take aim at the pretentious, the ridiculous, and the...

Byline: GERALD WARNER WHEN the assorted ranks of officials, journalists and Concerneds of Corstorphine filed into the elegant room where the Holyrood Inquiry is being held yesterday, there was a striking new addition to the decor. A long strip of paper, covered...