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| For there be women, fair as she, / Whose verbs and nouns do more agree. |
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Francis Bret
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| Francis Bret Harte |
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| 1836–1902, American writer of short stories and humorous verse, b. Albany, N.Y.… He gained enormous success with the publication of “The Luck of Roaring Camp,” the first of his picturesque stories of Western local color, and with such later stories as “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” and “Brown of Calaveras.” Although Harte did not develop character and motivation, he had an observant eye and a brisk reportorial style.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Biographical Note from Harvard Classics.) |
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Pronunciation:  härt from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- The Luck of Roaring Camp, The Outcasts of Poker Flat & The Idyl of Red Gulch
From the Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction, Vol. X, Part 4.
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- Tennessee’s Partner
From Matthew’s anthology The Short-Story.
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- Bartlett’s Harte Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.
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- ANTHOLOGIZED VERSE
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- Chiquita; Dow’s Flat; Jim; Plain Language from Truthful James; Society upon the Stanislaus; What the Bullet sang; What the Engines Said
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- WRITINGS ABOUT HARTE
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- “Bret Harte”
Section from the Cambridge History of English Literature.
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