The Luck of Roaring Camp And Other Stories 1889 [Leather Bound]

by Harte Bret

Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine (extra customization on request like complete leather, Golden Screen printing in Front, Color Leather, Colored book etc.) Reprinted in 2019 with the help of original edition published long back [1889]. This book is printed in black & white, sewing binding for longer life, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set, then it is only single volume, if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. - English, Pages 422. EXTRA 10 DAYS APART FROM THE NORMAL SHIPPING PERIOD WILL BE REQUIRED FOR LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. COMPLETE LEATHER WILL COST YOU EXTRA US$ 25 APART FROM THE LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. {FOLIO EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE.}

Genres: Short Stories, Westerns

422 pages, Leather Bound

First published January 1, 1968

Reviews

[Mitchell]

I have always heard of 'The Outcasts of Poker Flat' and 'The Luck of Roaring Camp' but I had never read a word of Bret Harte. I even live next to an elementary school named for him!

A neighbor lent me this volume and I must say that I was really surprised by what I found. I expected folksy, heart-warming tales of the old West, but man! that is not at all what is in these stories. Funny and edgy, tart and sad, these stories are very modern in their sensibility and the plots are way darker than I expected.

Why is he a forgotten writer?

[Richard Thompson]

More Bret Harte. I liked these a little less than the collection under the title of Colonel Starbottle's Client, but they had much the same flavor and quality. I continued to like his colorful early California characters and the sense of reality that I got from the settings, so I was a little surprised to learn that it was all made up from his office in San Francisco with little direct contact between Harte and the types of people who populated his stories. It was also interesting to find out that his version of the miners' speech is entirely invented. But my reaction to all of that was to admire him more for his inventiveness than to disrespect him as a faker. And his mythology of the West was taken up by more than a few other writers in the Western genre, so that the products of his imagination became American archetypes.

Still, I wondered why Harte is so little known and read today. It turns out that much of it was due to his own struggles - writer's block, ego, financial troubles and a weak relationship with the truth. Several nails were pounded into his literary coffin by Mark Twain with whom he had a major falling out after a close early relationship. And then in the twentieth century, the Robert Penn Warren crew tossed a few more shovelfuls of dirt onto the grave. Bret Harte may have been a not so good a human being and only a pretty good writer, but he deserves to be remembered better.

[Gene Brooks]

I found the stories uninteresting. Maybe just me. Could not keep my focus on this book. It took me three times as long to finish this book than my normal rate. I was constantly falling asleep.

[John Senner]

The title story, The Outcasts of Poker Flat, and Mliss were amusing, but reading the other twenty stories about life in California mining camps became tedious.