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Bret Harte
1836–1902
Best known for bringing Gold Rush California vividly to life, this 19th-century writer mixed humor, pathos, and sharp observation in stories that helped shape the American short story. His frontier tales, especially "The Luck of Roaring Camp" and "The Outcasts of Poker Flat," made him one of the most widely read authors of his day.
65 Audiobooks
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales
by Bret Harte
Selected Stories of Bret Harte
by Bret Harte
Complete Poetical Works
by Bret Harte
Gabriel Conroy
by Bret Harte
Stories in Light and Shadow
by Bret Harte
The Story of a Mine
by Bret Harte
Tennessee's Partner
by Bret Harte
Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories
by Bret Harte
Dickens in Camp
by Bret Harte
The Argonauts of North Liberty
by Bret Harte
In the Carquinez Woods
by Bret Harte
Sally Dows
by Bret Harte
The Queen of the Pirate Isle
by Bret Harte
Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation
by Bret Harte
Drift from Two Shores
by Bret Harte
A Drift from Redwood Camp
by Bret Harte
The Queen of the Pirate Isle
by Bret Harte
Tales of the Argonauts
by Bret Harte
Bocetos californianos
by Bret Harte
A Phyllis of the Sierras
by Bret Harte
Colonel Starbottle's Client
by Bret Harte
Tales of Trail and Town
by Bret Harte
Legends and Tales
by Bret Harte
The Three Partners
by Bret Harte
A Waif of the Plains
by Bret Harte
Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Bret Harte
by Bret Harte
Under the Redwoods
by Bret Harte
Two Men of Sandy Bar: A Drama
by Bret Harte
Openings in the Old Trail
by Bret Harte
Flip: A California Romance
by Bret Harte
The Crusade of the Excelsior
by Bret Harte
Snow-Bound at Eagle's
by Bret Harte
A Ward of the Golden Gate
by Bret Harte
A Sappho of Green Springs
by Bret Harte
Her Letter, His Answer & Her Last Letter
by Bret Harte
Cressy
by Bret Harte
Jeff Briggs's Love Story
by Bret Harte
Devil's Ford
by Bret Harte
Clarence
by Bret Harte
Urban Sketches
by Bret Harte
Condensed Novels: New Burlesques
by Bret Harte
Condensed Novels
by Bret Harte
Tri Noveloj de Usona Verkisto Bret Harte
by Bret Harte
Kertoelmia ja jutelmia: Suomennoksia ja alkuperäisiä
by Lars Dilling, Julle Erg, Bret Harte, Mark Twain
A First Family of Tasajara
by Bret Harte
On the Frontier
by Bret Harte
The Twins of Table Mountain, and Other Stories
by Bret Harte
The Bell-Ringer of Angel's, and Other Stories
by Bret Harte
Trent's Trust, and Other Stories
by Bret Harte
Thankful Blossom
by Bret Harte
From Sand Hill to Pine
by Bret Harte
Found at Blazing Star
by Bret Harte
East and West: Poems
by Bret Harte
"Excelsior"
by Bret Harte
A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready
by Bret Harte
Salomy Jane
by Bret Harte
In a Hollow of the Hills
by Bret Harte
A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's, and Other Stories
by Bret Harte
Susy, a Story of the Plains
by Bret Harte
Tarinoita Kalifornian kultamailta
by Bret Harte
Frontier Stories
by Bret Harte
Sormus : Kalifornialainen kertomus
by Bret Harte
Maruja
by Bret Harte
The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales
by Bret Harte
By Shore and Sedge
by Bret Harte
About the author
Born in Albany, New York, in 1836, Bret Harte moved to California as a teenager and drew deeply on its mining camps, rough towns, and quickly changing society for his fiction. He worked in a range of jobs, including journalism and editing, before gaining national attention in the late 1860s with stories set in the American West.
Harte had a gift for finding tenderness and irony in unlikely places. His writing often focused on gamblers, miners, drifters, and other marginal figures, treating them with wit and sympathy rather than simple judgment. That approach helped make his Western stories feel fresh to readers in the United States and abroad.
Later in life he also served in diplomatic posts and spent many of his final years in Europe. He died in 1902, but his influence lasted: his California stories opened the door for later regional writers and remain the works most closely tied to his name.