The Luck of Roaring Camp And Other Tales
by Bret Harte
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The defining stories from one of America's great wits In the mid-nineteenth century, the Wild West grabbed ahold of American consciousness and never let go. With the discovery of gold, all eyes and wagons turned westward. This collection of stories brings readers back to the American frontier. In "The Luck of Roaring Camp," when a Native American woman dies in childbirth, the miners take it upon themselves to raise the child. Naming the baby Luck, the miners learn more about responsibility show more and class through raising the boy than they have through anything else in their lives. Other stories in the collection include classic prospecting-set short stories such as "Tennessee's Partner" and "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" and the short novels "Muck-a-Muck" and "Selina Sedilia." In this timeless collection, Bret Harte has captured the California gold rush as no other writer could. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices. show lessTags
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I think this is the right book. I got it on the kindle. It includes the Luck of Roaring Camp stories, and then other stuff...these weird "Condensed Novels", which are short chaptered tales, written in the style of famous writers. There are a combination of story & satire. And the legends, and then the "earlier papers." It is great stuff!
The lively tale of the title Luck of Roaring Camp story ends with unexpected sadness.
Not knowing what to expect of Bret Harte and this collection, I was surprised to find the second story,
The Outcasts of Poker Flat, equally hopeless and sad and lets readers down with "nigger-luck."
MIGGLES is as annoying as its name.
TENNESSEE's PARTNER, though also sad, has the first sign of humor.
MUCK is yuck.
Redeeming?
M'liss has a readable plot. George T. a good guy.
The rest is a miss mashing of stereotypes.
Memorable!= the freedom of that singing gambler in "Brown of Calaveras" and the name Slumgullion.
Not knowing what to expect of Bret Harte and this collection, I was surprised to find the second story,
The Outcasts of Poker Flat, equally hopeless and sad and lets readers down with "nigger-luck."
MIGGLES is as annoying as its name.
TENNESSEE's PARTNER, though also sad, has the first sign of humor.
MUCK is yuck.
Redeeming?
M'liss has a readable plot. George T. a good guy.
The rest is a miss mashing of stereotypes.
Memorable!= the freedom of that singing gambler in "Brown of Calaveras" and the name Slumgullion.
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Bret Harte's birth year is variously given as 1836 and 1839, and his tombstone bears the date 1837. He is remembered especially for his two short stories, "The Luck of Roaring Camp" (1868) and "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" (1870), both achievements in local color. The former is the story of an orphaned baby adopted by the men in a gold-rush-era show more mining camp; it was dramatized by Dion Boucicault in 1894. The latter is a tale about four undesirables expelled from a mining camp and their losing battle against a blizzard. Although he was born in the East and lived there and in Europe most of his life, Harte's 17 years of residence in California have associated him most closely with that state, and the scenes of all his successful stories are set in the West. His contemporary sketches of life in San Francisco during the 1860s, written with Mark Twain, were first collected in book form as Sketches of the Sixties (1926). When he went east again to settle in Boston in 1871, his talent seems to have deserted him. Much of his later life was spent in England. Today, his formerly out-of-print stories are available in reprint versions from Ayer Publishers. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales; The Luck of Roaring Camp And Other Tales
- Original publication date
- 1868
- Disambiguation notice
- A catch-all record for books with the same title. It is unclear if these are one work, containing the same stories, or multiple works containing different stories.
Russell Classics edition. Do not combine with works containing different stories.
Great Classics Illustrated edition. Do not combine with works containing different stories.
Dodd, Mead ed. published 1961. Do not combine with works containing different stories.
ISBN 1241674264. BiblioLife Ed. Do not combine with works containing different material.
ISBN 1603121773. Do not combine with works containing different stories. (show all 7)
ISBN 1414263422. This has quite a lengthy table of contents. Do not combine with works containing different material.
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