The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales
With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers
This volume collects the stories that made Bret Harte famous around 1870, with an introduction by the author. "The Luck of Roaring Camp," in which a camp of miners adopts a newborn baby, "The Outcasts of Poker Flat," "Miggles," "Tennessee's Partner," "Brown of Calaveras" and "M'liss" show his California of gamblers, miners and outcasts surprised into decency. Beside them stand the Condensed Novels, sharp parodies of Cooper, Dumas, Charlotte Brontë, Hugo, Dickens, Disraeli and other popular novelists, as well as legends of Spanish California such as "The Legend of Monte del Diablo" and a group of early sketches. Harte's mixture of sentiment and irony shaped the Western story for decades. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first story is free.
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