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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Selected Stories, by Bret Harte This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Selected Stories Author: Bret Harte Release Date: May 3, 2006 [EBook #1312] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SELECTED STORIES *** Produced by Donald Lainson SELECTED STORIES OF BRET HARTE CONTENTS INTRODUCTION THE LUCK OF ROARING CAMP THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT MIGGLES TENNESSEE'S PARTNER THE IDYL OF RED GULCH BROWN OF CALAVERAS HIGH-WATER MARK A LONELY RIDE THE MAN OF NO ACCOUNT MLISS THE RIGHT EYE OF THE COMMANDER NOTES BY FLOOD AND FIELD AN EPISODE OF FIDDLETOWN BARKER'S LUCK A YELLOW DOG A MOTHER OF FIVE BULGER'S REPUTATION IN THE TULES A CONVERT OF THE MISSION THE INDISCRETION OF ELSBETH THE DEVOTION OF ENRIQUEZ INTRODUCTION The life of Bret Harte divides itself, without adventitious forcing, into four quite distinct parts. First, we have the precocious boyhood, with its eager response to the intellectual stimulation of cultured parents; young Bret Harte assimilated Greek with amazing facility; devoured voraciously the works of Shakespeare, Dickens, Irving, Froissart, Cervantes, Fielding; and, with creditable success, attempted various forms of composition. Then, compelled by economic necessity, he left school at thirteen, and for three years worked first in a lawyer's office, and then in a merchant's counting house. The second period, that of his migration to California, includes all that is permanently valuable of Harte's literary output. Arriving in California in 1854, he was, successively, a school-teacher, drug-store clerk, express messenger, typesetter, and itinerant journalist. He worked for a while on the NORTHERN CALIFORNIA (from which he was dismissed for objecting editorially to the contemporary California sport of murdering Indians), then on the GOLDEN ERA, 1857, where he achieved his first moderate acclaim. In this latter year he married Anne Griswold of New York. In 1864 he was given the secretaryship of the California mint, a virtual sinecure, and he was enabled do a great deal of writing. The first volume of his p
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