Selections from Bret Harte, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush.

For this edition, noted scholar Gary Scharnhorst has selected 259 letters (including 144 that are new to scholarship) from more than 2,000 Bret Harte letters known to exist. Scharnhorst's lively introduction and comprehensive notes give general readers and specialists immediate access to the literary and social milieus in which Harte lived and worked. A painstaking correspondent, Bret Harte created in his letters fascinating vignettes of life on several...

Selections from Bret Harte and Mark Twain from the newspaper Californian, 1864-1867.

"An anthology of stories written by great writers who have been inspired by Christianity"--Back cover

Gathers stories from the U.S., England, and Ireland by such noted writers as Hawthorne, Poe, James, Conrad, Joyce, O'Flaherty, Lessing, and Updike.