Harte Bret: 420 books

Originally published in Harte’s 1875 short-story collection The Tales of the Argonauts, How Santa Claus Came to Simpson’s Bar” is set in California in the early 1860s and, like the rest of the tales in that collection, features the gold-seeking Argonauts. In this tale, like many...

Ambrose Bierce called Harte “incomparable.” In the 1888 title story, Harte plunges the refined and very British Mr. Mainwaring into the Wild West. Then, a miner is transformed by an encounter with Indians.

Christmas is the most famous holiday of the year, and the word itself evokes images of Santa Claus, Christmas trees, lights, the baby Jesus, and, of course, presents. Instantly, well known Christmas carols ring in your ears, or maybe you even picture nutcrackers or Scrooge and Tiny Tim. Christmas has...

Christmas is the most famous holiday of the year, and the word itself evokes images of Santa Claus, Christmas trees, lights, the baby Jesus, and, of course, presents. Instantly, well known Christmas carols ring in your ears, or maybe you even picture nutcrackers or Scrooge and Tiny Tim. Christmas has...

Harte’s protagonist, John Hale, is relieved of his cash by highway robbers while riding in a stagecoach. Hale decides to get together a group of men to catch the thieves, but as the story moves along, many of his co-conspirators seem to have their own, more malevolent, motives.

The Argonauts are the gold seekers of 1849 and the years immediately following. These adventurers came from all quarters of the globe and all ranks of society, and they had in common only the possession of the strength and determination necessary to reach the new Colchis. Here they lived, at first,...

Clásicos de literatura del Oeste para observar la transformación del sueño americano. El sueño pastoral americano se ha transformado en un crudo sueño de poder y riqueza. ¿Cómo ha sucedido? El progreso y las tecnologías transformaron nuestra sociedad. Estos autores clásicos muestran el impacto...

A motley cast of characters comes together in the unspoiled forestland of the Carquinez Woods, including a female murderer on the lam, a sensitive, hermit-like Native American, a hard-drinking minister and his pious and beautiful teenage daughter, and Yuba Bill, a stage driver with a heart of gold who appears in many of Harte's stories.

An intricate tale of relationships and deception. The fast-paced and action-packed narrative keeps the readers on their toes. With in-depth characterization and religious overtones this is a unique work by Harte.

Harte—who once rode shotgun on a stagecoach—knew the prospectors, gamblers, and gold-hearted frontier gals who won the West. The collection of treasures, published in 1896 includes “A Blue Grass Penelope,” “Left Out on Lone Star Mountain,” “A Ship of ’49,” “An Apostle of the Tules,” “Devil’s Ford,” and “A Secret of Telegraph Hill.”

A sensitive novel by Harte based on the central character of Maruja. The writer has beautifully portrayed feelings and emotions of the young girl. He also has brilliantly described the human relations and feelings of individuals towards each other. Tender and appealing!

Here are two of Harte’s finest, from 1886 and 1887. First, a gardener for a small mining settlement is the one to strike it rich. Next, a small mining town in Devil’s Spur grows too quickly for the older inhabitants to bear.

This classic western novel begins on a dark night in the west. Three pioneers on horseback are on the trail to riches—the rush for gold and silver in the California mountains. Brett Harte’s cowboy prose relates the story of this group of rough silver-seekers as they try to find the legendary treasure.

Fans of high-quality Western tales will cherish this collection from the renowned chronicler of California's misfits, outcasts, and rebels. Several of the stories collected resurrect some of Harte's most popular characters; widely reviled blowhard Colonel Starbottle is featured in "What Happened at the Fonda," and grizzled stage driver Yuba Bill shows up in "A Niece of Snapshot Harry's."