Harte Bret: 420 books

As the master of the Indian Spring school emerged from the pine woods into the little clearing before the schoolhouse, he stopped whistling, put his hat less jauntily on his head, threw away some wild flowers he had gathered on his way, and otherwise assumed the severe demeanor of his profession and...

This is a brilliant work that captures the lawlessness that prevailed in post-colonial America. The work also portrays men who were ready to fight for their rights and for the security of their families. The tough days of that era and the struggle to survive is depicted in a realistic manner.

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...

This holiday, we proudly present to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas stories. Over 250 of them are included by your favourite authors:Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Hans Christian Andersen, E.T.A. Hoffmann, O. Henry, Mark Twain and many more!

It was nearly two o'clock in the morning. The lights were out in Robinson's Hall, where there had been dancing and revelry; and the moon, riding high, painted the black windows with silver. The cavalcade, that an hour ago had shocked the sedate pines with song and laughter, were all dispersed. One enamoured...

Where the San Leandro turnpike stretches its dusty, hot, and interminable length along the valley, at a point where the heat and dust have become intolerable, the monotonous expanse of wild oats on either side illimitable, and the distant horizon apparently remoter than ever, it suddenly slips between...

Excerpt: "Mankind has always loved to tell stories and to listen to them. The most primitive and unlettered peoples and tribes have always shown and still show this universal characteristic. As far back as written records go we find stories; even before that time, they were handed down from remote...

“This was the Great Plains as they seemed to two children from the hooded depths of an emigrant wagon, above the swaying heads of toiling oxen, in the summer of 1852.” Travel the Oregon Trail in this 1890 wagon-train adventure, from the pen of the writer who opened the American West to literature.

The heroine of A Waif of the Plains returns in this 1893 novel. “Has his flowing serapes and his flying horsehair lariats...The man who first opened ground in an unknown realm of fiction likes to delineate what is ‘pure cussedness,’ and Susy is a mean girl.”—The New York Times.

“The bell of the North Liberty Second Presbyterian Church had just ceased ringing. North Liberty, Connecticut, never on any day a cheerful town, was always bleaker and more cheerless,” this 1888 tale of intrigue begins about a small town full of pious church-goers.

In addition to the title story, this 1889 collection contains the stories "A Knight-Errant of the Foot-Hills," "A Secret of Telegraph Hill," and "Captain Jim's Friend."

When beautiful Salomy Jane resists the romantic advances of a young ruffian, she is rescued by Jack Dart, who has his own additional reasons for tangling with the man.

Ten classic westerns from arguably some of the top western writers of all time. Salomy Jane (1898) The Virginian, A Horseman Of The Plains (1902) The Log of a Cowboy (1903) Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) The Lone Star Ranger (1915) Wildfire (1917) Cabin Fever (1918) The Treasure Trail (1918) The Mysterious Rider (1921) Black Jack (1922)