Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Bret Harte: Representative Selections, With Introduction, Bibliography, and Notes
Bret Harte is too Often remembered only as the author Of The Luck of Roaring Camp, The Outcasts of Poker Flat, and The Heathen Chinee. This volume may help to correct such a misapprehension of the man who, in addition to being a major initiator of the local-color movement in American litera ture, was a poet of some importance, who continued until the beginning of our century to write stories many of which deserve a rating close to that of his earlier successes, who was one Of the best or perhaps the very best of all American parodists, and who made a significant contribution to American literary, criticism. The selections are designed to illustrate this variety in Harte's work, and the introduction has_sought to emphasize both the variety and the unity which informs it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
