The Life of Bret Harte: With Some Account of the California Pioneers
by Henry Childs Merwin
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About this eBook
- Author
- Merwin, Henry Childs, 1853-1929
- Title
- The Life of Bret Harte, with Some Account of the California Pioneers
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net.
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
- Subject
- Western stories -- Authorship
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 34940
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34940
- Release Date
- January 13, 2011
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE LIFE OF BRET HARTE
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.ILLUSTRATIONS — THE LIFE OF BRET HARTE
- 5.BRET HARTE
- 6.CHAPTER I — BRET HARTE’S ANCESTRY
- 7.CHAPTER II — BRET HARTE’S BOYHOOD
- 8.CHAPTER III — BRET HARTE’S WANDERINGS IN CALIFORNIA
- 9.CHAPTER IV — BRET HARTE IN SAN FRANCISCO
- 10.CHAPTER V — THE PIONEER MEN AND WOMEN
- 11.CHAPTER VI — PIONEER LIFE
- 12.CHAPTER VII — PIONEER LAW AND LAWLESSNESS
- 13.CHAPTER VIII — WOMEN AND CHILDREN AMONG THE PIONEERS
- 14.CHAPTER IX — FRIENDSHIP AMONG THE PIONEERS
- 15.CHAPTER X — GAMBLING IN PIONEER TIMES
- 16.CHAPTER XI — OTHER FORMS OF BUSINESS
- 17.CHAPTER XII — LITERATURE, JOURNALISM AND RELIGION
- 18.CHAPTER XIII — BRET HARTE’S DEPARTURE FROM CALIFORNIA
- 19.CHAPTER XIV — BRET HARTE IN THE EAST
- 20.CHAPTER XV — BRET HARTE AT CREFELD
- 21.CHAPTER XVI — BRET HARTE AT GLASGOW
- 22.CHAPTER XVII — BRET HARTE IN LONDON
- 23.CHAPTER XVIII — BRET HARTE AS A WRITER OF FICTION
- 24.CHAPTER XIX — BRET HARTE AS A POET
- 25.CHAPTER XX — BRET HARTE’S PIONEER DIALECT
- 26.CHAPTER XXI — BRET HARTE’S STYLE
- 27.INDEX
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