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The luck of Roaring Camp and other writings / Bret Harte ; with an introduction and notes by Gary Scharnhorst.
- Title
- The luck of Roaring Camp and other writings / Bret Harte ; with an introduction and notes by Gary Scharnhorst.
- Author
- Harte, Bret, 1836-1902
- Publication
- New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 2001.
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- Additional Authors
- Scharnhorst, Gary
- Description
- xxix, 302 p.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- Brings together Harte's best-known pieces including "The Luck of Roaring Camp" and "The Outcasts of Poker Flat," along with essays, a selection of poetry, and three of his condensed novels.
- Series Statement
- Penguin classics
- Uniform Title
- Penguin classics
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Short stories
- Western stories
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. xxv-xxvii).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Stories. The legend of Monte del Diablo -- The luck of Roaring Camp --The outcasts of Poker Flat -- Miggles -- Tennessee's Partner -- The idyl of Red Gulch -- Brown of Calaveras -- Mr. Thompson's prodigal -- The iliad of Sandy Bar -- The poet of Sierra Flat -- How Santa Claus came to Simpson's Bar -- Wan Lee, the pagan -- An ingeńue of the Sierras -- Three vagabonds of Trinidad -- A pupil of Chestnut Ridge -- Condensed novels. Muck-a-muck -- The haunted man -- The stolen cigar case -- Poetry. To the pliocene skull -- The society upon the Stanislaus -- Plain language from Truthful James -- Dickens in camp -- That Ebrew Jew -- Free silver at Angel's -- Essays. The Argonauts of '49 -- The rise of the 'short story' -- How I went to the mines -- Bohemian days in San Francisco -- Explanatory notes.
- ISBN
- 014043917X (pbk.) :
- OCLC
- 47851906
- SCSB-11834423
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library