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Bret Harte (/ h ɑːr t / HART, born Francis Brett Hart, August 25, 1836 – May 5, 1902) was an American short story writer and poet best remembered for short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush.
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The compilation was published by James T. Fields of Fields, Osgood, & Co. at about the same time that Harte's poem "The Heathen Chinee" was published. Those simultaneous publications caused Harte's popularity to skyrocket nearly overnight and Fields offered Harte a $10,000 exclusive contract to contribute to The Atlantic Monthly. [5]
M'Liss, an 1877 play co-authored by Clay M. Greene and A. Sisson Thompson which was adapted from the 1860 short story "The Work on Red Mountain" by Bret Harte, and its subsequent expansion into a larger serialized novel by Harte in 1863. After the success of this play, either the play or Harte's original source material was the basis for ...
Harte occasionally seems to have adopted some of the less fortunate devices of Charles Dickens, but his manner was chiefly his own. He lacks literary finish, though he was painstaking in regard to style; but in these early tales he has a sure command of humor and pathos, and a complete mastery of his unique material.
The genre originated in the 1800s, popularised by the works of Bret Harte, [3] Zane Grey [4] and Catharine Sedgwick [1] who wrote love stories about cowboys and their heroines, and often their conflict with Native Americans.
Tennessee's Partner is a short story by Bret Harte, first published in the Overland Monthly in 1869, which has been described as "one of the earliest 'buddy' stories in American fiction." [ 1 ] It was later loosely adapted into four films.
In some cases, especially 19th century and earlier books, the full title included a longer preamble like "The History of...", but has been shortened in general use to just the heroine's name – for example, The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders; these are included regardless of whether their entry is called by the full or ...