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9780140439175

The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Writings

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  • ISBN13:

    9780140439175

  • ISBN10:

    014043917X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-08-01
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics

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Summary

The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Writingsbrings together not only Harte's best-known pieces, such as "The Luck of Roaring Camp "and "The Outcasts of Poker Flat, "but also the original transcription of the famous 1882 essay "The Argonauts of '49, "as well as a selection of his poetry, lesser-known essays, and three of his Condensed Novels, which are notable for Harte's parodies of James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Dickens, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This is the first collection to feature selections that evenly cover the full scope of Harte's writing career.

Author Biography

Gary Scharnhorst is editor of American Literary Realism and editor in alternating years of the research annual American Literary Scholarship.


Gary Scharnhorst is editor of American Literary Realism and editor in alternating years of the research annual American Literary Scholarship.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii
Suggestions for Further Reading xxv
A Note on the Texts xxix
STORIES
``The Legend of Monte del Diablo''
3(13)
``The Luck of Roaring Camp''
16(11)
``The Outcasts of Poker Flat''
27(11)
``Miggles''
38(11)
``Tennessee's Partner''
49(9)
``The Idyl of Red Gulch''
58(10)
``Brown of Calaveras''
68(11)
``Mr. Thompson's Prodigal''
79(8)
``The Iliad of Sandy Bar''
87(11)
``The Poet of Sierra Flat''
98(10)
``How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar''
108(15)
``Wan Lee, the Pagan''
123(15)
``An Ingenue of the Sierras''
138(17)
``Three Vagabonds of Trinidad''
155(13)
``A Pupil of Chestnut Ridge''
168(17)
CONDENSED NOVELS
``Muck-a-Muck''
185(7)
``The Haunted Man''
192(8)
``The Stolen Cigar Case''
200(11)
POETRY
``To the Pliocene Skull''
211(2)
``The Society Upon the Stanislaus''
213(2)
``Plain Language from Truthful James''
215(2)
``Dickens in Camp''
217(2)
``That Ebrew Jew''
219(3)
``Free Silver at Angel's''
222(7)
ESSAYS
``The Argonauts of '49''
229(21)
``The Rise of the `Short Story'''
250(8)
``How I Went to the Mines''
258(10)
``Bohemian Days in San Francisco''
268(19)
Explanatory Notes 287

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