Author:Bret Harte

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Francis Bret Harte (1839–1902)

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Francis Bret Harte

Works

• The Lost Galleon and Other Tales (1867)
• Condensed Novels (1867)
• The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales (1870)
• Plain Language from Truthful James (1870)
• By Shore and Sedge (1885)
• The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh (1889)
• Colonel Starbottle's Client (1892)
• Barker's Luck and Other Stories (1896)
• Openings in the Old Trail (1902)
• Condensed Novels: Second Series New Burlesques (1902)
• Trent's Trust and Other Stories (1903)

Individual Stories

• An Ali Baba of the Sierras
• Barker's Luck
• Brown of Calaveras
• A Buckeye Hollow Inheritance
• Bulger's Reputation
• Captain Jim's Friend
• Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff
• The Convalescence of Jack Hamlin
• A Convert of the Mission
• The Devotion of Enriquez
• Dick Boyle's Business Card
• An Episode of Fiddletown
• The Goddess of Excelsior
• The Heathen Chinese
• The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh
• High Water Mark
• The Idyl of Red Gulch
• In the Tules
• The Indiscretion of Elsbeth
• A Knight-Errant of the Foothills
• The Landlord of the Big Flume Hotel
• Lanty Foster's Mistake
• A Lonely Ride
• The Luck of Roaring Camp
• The Man of No Account
• A Mercury of the Foothills
• Miggles
• Mr. Macglowrie's Widow
• Miss Peggy's Proteges
• Mliss
• A Mother of Five
• Notes by Flood and Field
• The Outcasts of Poker Flat
• The Reincarnation of Smith
• Prosper's "Old Mother"
• A Pupil of Chestnut Ridge
• The Right Eye of the Commander
• A Secret of Telegraph Hill
• The Sheriff of Siskyou
• Tennessee's Partner
• Trent's Trust
• A Ward of Colonel Starbottle
• What the Engines Said
• A Yellow Dog

Poems

• Her Letter

Works about the author

• “Harte, Francis Bret” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• “Harte, Bret” in The Nuttall Encyclopædia by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., 1907.
• “Harte, Francis Bret” by George Edwin Rines  in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.

On his works

• “Bret Harte” in Varied Types by Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1908)
• “Tales of the Argonauts, The” by William B. Cairns  in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.