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Drift from two shores, Maruja, By shore and sedge [and] Thankful blossom. By: Bret Harte: Illustrated...Francis Bret Harte (August 25, 1836 - May 5, 1

Drift from two shores, Maruja, By shore and sedge [and] Thankful blossom. By: Bret Harte: Illustrated...Francis Bret Harte (August 25, 1836 - May 5, 1

Harte, Bret

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General Fiction

ISBN10: 1722443332
ISBN13: 9781722443337
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 6 2018
Pages: 260
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.55 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Francis Bret Harte (August 25, 1836 - May 5, 1902) was an American short story writer and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he wrote poetry, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches in addition to fiction. As he moved from California to the eastern U.S. to Europe, he incorporated new subjects and characters into his stories, but his Gold Rush tales have been most often reprinted, adapted, and admired. Early life: Bret Harte was born in Albany, New York. He was named Francis Brett Hart after his great-grandfather, Francis Brett. When he was young, his father, Henry, changed the spelling of the family name from Hart to Harte. Henry's father was Bernard Hart, an Orthodox Jewish immigrant who flourished as a merchant, becoming one of the founders of the New York Stock Exchange. Later, Francis preferred to be known by his middle name, but he spelled it with only one t, becoming Bret Harte. An avid reader as a boy, Harte published his first work at age 11, a satirical poem titled Autumn Musings, now lost. Rather than attracting praise, the poem garnered ridicule from his family. As an adult, he recalled to a friend, Such a shock was their ridicule to me that I wonder that I ever wrote another line of verse. His formal schooling ended when he was 13, in 1849.

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