Author: Bret HartePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Snow-bound at Eagles's and Devil's Ford
Author: Bret HarteSnow-bound at Eagle's and Devil's Ford
Author: Snow-bound at Eagle's
Author: Bret HarteShow-bound at Eagles and Devil's Ford
Author: Bret Hartesnow-bound at eagle's
Author: bret harte Illustrated Catalogue and Classified Book List of the Northwestern Library Association ...
Author: Northwestern Library AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
SNOW BOUND AT EAGLES;IF, OF ALL WORDS OF TONGUE AND PEN, THE SADDEST ARE, 'IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN."
Author: BRET HARTE.Publisher:
ISBN: 9781783941858
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Francis Bret Harte was born on August 25, 1836 in Albany New York. As a young boy Harte developed an early love of books and reading. He first published at the tender age of 11; a satirical poem titled "Autumn Musings." Expecting praise he encountered anything but and was later to write "Such a shock was their ridicule to me that I wonder that I ever wrote another line of verse." By age 13 his formal education was at an end and four years later, in 1853, the family moved to California. Here the young man worked in a variety of capacities; miner, teacher, messenger, and journalist. But it was also here on the West coast that he found the stories and inspiration for the works that would endure his fame across the literary world. He championed the early writings of Mark Twain. He was instrumental in propelling the short story genre forward and brought tales of the Old West and the Gold Rush to a greater audience. At the height of his fame we would entertain staggering monetary offers to write for monthly magazines. His talents extended to poetry, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches. As he moved location initially further east to New York and then through Consular appointments to Europe and finally to settle in England his audience diminished but he continued to experiment, to write and to publish. Bret Harte died of throat cancer on May 5th 1902 and is buried in St. Peter's Church in Frimley, Surrey, England. Here we publish another very fine novel; "Snow Bound at Eagles."
Who's who
Author: Henry Robert AddisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
An annual biographical dictionary, with which is incorporated "Men and women of the time."
Snow-Bound at Eagle's
Author: Bret HartePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Book Excerptments' experience--he said hurriedly, "Then that fellow was there all the time?""I reckon," returned his companion, "he stopped five minutes to cover the driver with his double-barrel, until the two other men got off with the treasure.""The TWO others!" gasped Hale. "Then there were only THREE men, and we SIX."The man shrugged his shoulders. The passenger who had given up the greenbacks drawled, with a slow, irritating tolerance, "I reckon you're a stranger here?""I am--to this sort of thing, certainly, though I live a dozen miles from here, at Eagle's Court," returned Hale scornfully."Then you're the chap that's doin' that fancy ranchin' over at Eagle's," continued the man lazily."Whatever I'm doing at Eagle's Court, I'm not ashamed of it," said Hale tartly; "and that's more than I can say of what I've done--or HAVEN'T done--to-night. I've been one of six men over-awed and robbed by THREE.""As to the over-awin', ez you call it--mebbee you know more about it than us. As to the
Catalogue, 1906
Author: Staten Island Academy, New Brighton, N.Y. Arthur Winter Memorial LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description