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1Selected Stories of Bret Harte

By Bret Harte

Bret Harte (August 25, 1836 – May 6, 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. (Summary from Wikipedia)

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of <em>The Aged Stranger</em> by Francis Bret Harte. This was the fortnightly poetry project for December 28th, 2008.

LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of What the Bullet sang by Bret Harte. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 18th, 2010.

Bret Harte (1836 – 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California.... He moved to California in 1853, later working there in a number of capacities, including miner, teacher, messenger, and journalist. He spent part of his life in the northern California coastal town of Union (now known as Arcata), a settlement on Humboldt Bay that was established as a provisioning center for mining camps in the interior.... In 1868 he became editor of The Overland Monthly, another new literary magazine, but this one more in tune with the pioneering spirit of excitement in California. His story, "The Luck of Roaring Camp", appeared in the magazine's second issue, propelling Harte to nationwide fame. “Luck...” appeared in this first book along with other stories and sketches, especially “The Outcasts of Poker Flats,” of which several movies were made. (Summary by Wikipedia and David Wales)

5Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories

By Bret Harte

A collection of short stories set in the American West at the end of the 19th century. (Summary by Nick Bulka)

6What the Wolf Really Said to Little Red Riding Hood

By Bret Harte

Francis Bret Harte was an American author and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he wrote poetry, fiction, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches in addition to fiction. As he moved from California to the eastern U.S. to Europe, he incorporated new subjects and characters into his stories, but his Gold Rush tales have been most often reprinted, adapted, and admired. - Summary by Wikipedia

7Coyote

By Bret Harte

"He went with his widowed mother to California in 1854, and was thrown as a young man into the hurly-burly which he more than any other writer has made real to distant and later people. He was by turns a miner, school-teacher, express messenger, printer, and journalist. The types which live again in his pages are thus not only what he observed, but what he himself impersonated in his own experience." (from the BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH (introduction to) COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS By Bret Harte)

8Willows

By Bret Harte

The Willows is a parody on the verse of Edgar Allan Poe.<br/> Francis Bret Harte was an American author and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he wrote poetry, fiction, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches in addition to fiction. As he moved from California to the eastern U.S. to Europe, he incorporated new subjects and characters into his stories, but his Gold Rush tales have been most often reprinted, adapted, and admired. - Summary by Wikipedia

9Society Upon The Stanislaus

By Bret Harte

LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Society Upon The Stanislaus by Bret Harte.<br> This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 24, 2021. <br> ------<br> Taken from Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor, Volume II by Thomas L. Masson - Summary by David Lawrence

Bret Harte ha sido llamado con razón «el Dickens de los pioneros»: ilustrando con humor y sentimiento el coraje y la virtud de los primeros colonos, dio a conocer el salvaje Oeste a los lectores «civilizados» de la Costa Este, para quienes en aquel tiempo California era pura leyenda, e implantó una serie de arquetipos perdurables de una región que aún era una tierra prometida. Estos Cuentos del Oeste son un homenaje a los aventureros, a los tahúres, a los bandidos, a las prostitutas, a las soñadoras, a las valientes, gente que, a pesar de vivir en circunstancias excepcionales, no renuncian a la dignidad. - Introducción por Phileas Fogg

11By Shore and Sedge

By Bret Harte

By Shore and Sedge is a small volume of three short stories that examine the lives of people living on the coast of California and in the delta of the Sacramento River. The stories are set in the time just after the Gold Rush of 1849. - Summary by Brian Henson