Author: Bret HartePublisher: Holt McDougal
ISBN: 9780883434086
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Hart portrays life in mining camps during the California gold rush.
The Outcasts of Poker Flat and Other Stories
Author: Bret HartePublisher: Holt McDougal
ISBN: 9780883434086
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Hart portrays life in mining camps during the California gold rush.
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Author: Bret HartePublisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN: 8728377583
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
When the gambler, John Oakhurst, senses that he may have outstayed his welcome in the mining camp of Poker Flat, he sets off to find pastures new. Accompanied by the local drunk, Uncle Billy, and two prostitutes, he makes his way towards Sandy Bar. However, when things do not go according to plan, and the weather turns, Oakhurst must look deep inside himself to work out what to do. A gritty tale, riddled with tragedy and romance, ‘The Outcasts of Poker Flat’ does not spare the horses when it comes to depicting the difficulties faced by ordinary folk in the Old West. Born in New York, Bret Harte (1836 – 1902) was a prolific poet, author, and journalist. The son of one of the founders of the New York Stock Exchange, Harte’s education was erratic, and he left school at the age of 13. Four years later, he moved to California, trying out a number of jobs, including working as a miner and a journalist. After an unsuccessful stint as a stagecoach guard, he became a schoolteacher. Later, he was hired as an editor for ‘The Golden Era’ magazine. His piece on the Wiyot Massacre resulted in death threats, and Harte was forced to flee to San Francisco. There, he became a journalist for ‘The Atlantic Monthly’ and was instrumental in founding ‘The Californian’, and ‘The Overland Monthly’. The latter was to publish one of his most well-known stories, ‘The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches’. During his lifetime, Harte published more than 30 books.
The Outcasts of Poker Flat and Other Tales
Author: Bret HartePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Author: Bret HartePublisher: Dramatic Publishing
ISBN: 9780871295477
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Author: The Outcasts of Poker Flat, and Other Tales. With an Introd. by Wallace Stegner
Author: Bret HarteThe Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches
Author: Bret HartePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Selected Stories
Author: Bret HarteBlindsight
Author: Peter WattsPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429955198
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales
Author: Bret HartePublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
"The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales" by Bret Harte. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.