Author: Bret Harte
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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Author: Donald T. Blume
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873387781
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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Donald T. Blume rejects the view that In the Midst of Life, the second volume of Bierce's collected works, is his most important literary work. Instead, he posits that Bierce's original 1892 collection is his most definitive and authoritative opus.

Author: Arnold Bennett
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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"Brimming with nuanced insights about the true nature of marriage that still resonate today."--Google books.

Author: Bret Harte
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 630

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Author: Gary Scharnhorst
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806132549
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Bret Harte was the best-known and highest paid writer in America in the early 1870s, yet his vexed attempts to earn a living by his pen led to the failure of his marriage and, in 1878, his departure for Europe. Gary Scharnhorst’s biography of Harte traces the growing commercial appeal of western fiction and drama on both sides of the Atlantic during the Gilded Age, a development in which Harte played a crucial role. Harte’s pioneering use of California local color in such stories as "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" challenged genteel assumptions about western writing and helped open eastern papers to contributions by Mark Twain and others. The popularity of Bret Harte’s writings was driven largely by a literary market that his western stories helped create. The first Harte biography in nearly seventy years to be written entirely from primary sources, this book documents Harte’s personal relationships and, in addition, his negotiations with various publishers, agents, and theatrical producers as he exploited popular interest in the American West.

Author: Bret Harte
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540

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Author: Bret Harte
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540

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Author: Matthias McDonnell Bodkin
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Author: Robert Machray
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 844

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