Bret Harte

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Bret Harte

1836–1902

Best remembered for bringing the California Gold Rush to life in fiction, this pioneering American writer turned miners, gamblers, and drifters into unforgettable characters. His stories helped shape the local-color tradition in American literature and made the West vivid for readers far beyond it.

64 Audiobooks

By Shore and Sedge

By Shore and Sedge

by Bret Harte

Tennessee's Partner

Tennessee's Partner

by Bret Harte

The Three Partners

The Three Partners

by Bret Harte

Devil's Ford

Devil's Ford

by Bret Harte

Gabriel Conroy

Gabriel Conroy

by Bret Harte

Found at Blazing Star

Found at Blazing Star

by Bret Harte

Maruja

Maruja

by Bret Harte

Under the Redwoods

Under the Redwoods

by Bret Harte

Clarence

Clarence

by Bret Harte

Thankful Blossom

Thankful Blossom

by Bret Harte

East and West: Poems

East and West: Poems

by Bret Harte

A Waif of the Plains

A Waif of the Plains

by Bret Harte

Frontier Stories

Frontier Stories

by Bret Harte

"Excelsior"

"Excelsior"

by Bret Harte

Cressy

Cressy

by Bret Harte

Snow-Bound at Eagle's

Snow-Bound at Eagle's

by Bret Harte

Salomy Jane

Salomy Jane

by Bret Harte

Drift from Two Shores

Drift from Two Shores

by Bret Harte

Kertoelmia ja jutelmia: Suomennoksia ja alkuperäisiä

Kertoelmia ja jutelmia: Suomennoksia ja alkuperäisiä

by Lars Dilling, Julle Erg, Bret Harte, Mark Twain

Bocetos californianos

Bocetos californianos

by Bret Harte

On the Frontier

On the Frontier

by Bret Harte

Condensed Novels

Condensed Novels

by Bret Harte

Sally Dows

Sally Dows

by Bret Harte

Urban Sketches

Urban Sketches

by Bret Harte

The Story of a Mine

The Story of a Mine

by Bret Harte

Legends and Tales

Legends and Tales

by Bret Harte

About the author

Born in Albany, New York, in 1836, Bret Harte grew up with a love of books and headed to California as a teenager during the Gold Rush era. The rough, fast-changing world he found there became the material for the stories and poems that made him famous.

Harte worked as a printer, journalist, and editor before breaking through with tales such as The Luck of Roaring Camp and The Outcasts of Poker Flat. He is widely remembered for writing about miners, gamblers, and frontier communities, and for helping establish the local-color style in American fiction.

His success eventually brought him an international readership. Later in life he served as a U.S. consul in Europe and spent many of his final years in England, where he died in 1902.