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Bret Harte

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Bret Harte


Born
in Albany, New York, The United States
August 25, 1836

Died
May 06, 1902

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People note American writer Francis Bret Harte for The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches (1870), his best-known collection of his stories about California mining towns.

People best remember this poet for his short-story fiction, featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the Gold Rush. In a career, spanning more than four decades, he wrote poetry, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches in addition to fiction. As he moved from California to the eastern United States to Europe, he incorporated new subjects and characters into his stories, but people most often reprinted, adapted, and admired his tales of the Gold Rush.

Parents named him after Francis Brett, his great-grandfather. Bernard Hart,
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The Outcasts of Poker Flat ...

3.51 avg rating — 1,089 ratings — published 1961 — 49 editions
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The Luck of Roaring Camp

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The Luck of Roaring Camp an...

3.66 avg rating — 269 ratings — published 1882 — 4 editions
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Tennessee's Partner

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3.33 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 2001 — 35 editions
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Selected Stories of Bret Harte

3.69 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 1870 — 81 editions
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The Luck of Roaring Camp: A...

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Snow-Bound at Eagle's

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A Waif of the Plains

3.81 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 1890 — 103 editions
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The Queen of the Pirate Isle

3.10 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1886 — 64 editions
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“If, of all words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are, 'It might have been,'

More sad are these we daily see:
'It is, but hadn't ought to be.”
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tags: poem

“The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. ”
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“For, he (The Devil) observed, the issue of the great battle of Good and Evil had been otherwise settled, as he would presently show him. "It wants but a few moments of night," he continued, "and over this interval of twilight, as you know, I have been given complete control. Look to the West.("The Legend of Monte Del Diablo")”
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