Author: Margaret DuckettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Mark Twain and Bret Harte
Author: Margaret DuckettBret Harte
Author: Axel NissenPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617033599
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The Bohemians
Author: Ben TarnoffPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143126962
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
An extraordinary portrait of a fast-changing America—and the Western writers who gave voice to its emerging identity At once an intimate portrait of an unforgettable group of writers and a history of a cultural revolution in America, The Bohemians reveals how a brief moment on the far western frontier changed our culture forever. Beginning with Mark Twain’s arrival in San Francisco in 1863, this group biography introduces readers to the other young eccentric writers seeking to create a new American voice at the country’s edge—literary golden boy Bret Harte; struggling gay poet Charles Warren Stoddard; and beautiful, haunted Ina Coolbrith, poet and protector of the group. Ben Tarnoff’s elegant, atmospheric history reveals how these four pioneering writers helped spread the Bohemian movement throughout the world, transforming American literature along the way. “Tarnoff’s book sings with the humor and expansiveness of his subjects’ prose, capturing the intoxicating atmosphere of possibility that defined, for a time, America’s frontier.” -- The New Yorker “Rich hauls of historical research, deeply excavated but lightly borne.... Mr. Tarnoff’s ultimate thesis is a strong one, strongly expressed: that together these writers ‘helped pry American literature away from its provincial origins in New England and push it into a broader current’.” -- Wall Street Journal
Mark Twain and Bret Harte
Author: Margaret DuckettThe Heathen Chinee
Author: Bret HartePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382169606
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Bret Harte
Author: Gary ScharnhorstPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806132549
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Bret Harte was the best-known and highest paid writer in America in the early 1870s, yet his vexed attempts to earn a living by his pen led to the failure of his marriage and, in 1878, his departure for Europe. Gary Scharnhorst’s biography of Harte traces the growing commercial appeal of western fiction and drama on both sides of the Atlantic during the Gilded Age, a development in which Harte played a crucial role. Harte’s pioneering use of California local color in such stories as "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" challenged genteel assumptions about western writing and helped open eastern papers to contributions by Mark Twain and others. The popularity of Bret Harte’s writings was driven largely by a literary market that his western stories helped create. The first Harte biography in nearly seventy years to be written entirely from primary sources, this book documents Harte’s personal relationships and, in addition, his negotiations with various publishers, agents, and theatrical producers as he exploited popular interest in the American West.
Never the Twain
Author: Kirk MitchellPublisher: Ace Books
ISBN: 9780441569731
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Howard Hart, a descendant of novelist Bret Harte, journeys back in time to change the course of history by destroying the literacy career of Mark Twain and by ensuring the success of his own ancestor
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches
Author: Bret HartePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Mark Twain's Autobiography
Author: Mark TwainThe Mississippi Pilot
Author: Mark TwainPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385423422
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description