In the 1870s Bret Harte was the most widely read and well-paid author in the United States. Stories such as The Luck of Roaring Camp--the tale of a Gold Rush community that thrilled readers upon its publication in 1868--virtually invented California as a subject for literature and exerted a profound influence on the development of the short story form in America. This collection contains his best work and demonstrates Harte's remarkable control of reader response, his treatment of repressed passion and male anxieties, and his sympathy for marginal members of frontier society.

Selected Stories and Sketches (The ^AWorld's Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Harte, Francis Bret

United States

Oxford University Press

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The luck of Roaring Camp, and other sketches

History

World

Trieste Publishing

<p>As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)</p>

The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches

Humor & Satire

BiblioLife

The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches (Bibliolife Reproduction Series)

By Shore and Sedge [Containing] an Apostle of the Tules, Sarah Walker, a Ship of '49

Nabu Press

Condensed Novels. Complete Ed

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