Author: Bret HartePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368430319
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
Snow-Bound at Eagle's
Author: Bret HartePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368430319
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
Snow-bound at Eagle's and Devil's Ford
Author: Bret HartePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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."
snow-bound at eagle's
Author: bret harte Snow-Bound at Eagle's
Author: Bret HartePublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781484092057
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Snow-Bound at Eagle's
Snow-bound at Eagles's and Devil's Ford
Author: Bret HarteSnow-Bound at Eagle's
Author: Bret HartePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368430300
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
Snow Bound at Eagle's
Author: Bret HartePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Book Excerpt: ments' 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 Read More
Snow-Bound at Eagle's
Author: Bret HartePublisher: VM eBooks
ISBN: 9781318742769
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
For some moments profound silence and darkness had accompanied a Sierran stage-coach towards the summit. The huge, dim bulk of the vehicle, swaying noiselessly on its straps, glided onward and upward as if obeying some mysterious impulse from behind, so faint and indefinite appeared its relation to the viewless and silent horses ahead. The shadowy trunks of tall trees that seemed to approach the coach windows, look in, and then move hurriedly away, were the only distinguishable objects. Yet even these were so vague and unreal that they might have been the mere phantoms of some dream of the half-sleeping passengers; for the thickly-strewn needles of the pine, that choked the way and deadened all sound, yielded under the silently-crushing wheels a faint soporific odor that seemed to benumb their senses, already slipping back into unconsciousness during the long ascent. Suddenly the stage stopped. Three of the four passengers inside struggled at once into upright wakefulness. The fourth passenger, John Hale, had not been sleeping, and turned impatiently towards the window. It seemed to him that two of the moving trees had suddenly become motionless outside. One of them moved again, and the door opened quickly but quietly, as of itself.
Snow-bound at Eagle's
Author: Bret HartePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description