Bret Harte was at the forefront of western American literature, paving the way for other writers, including Mark Twain. For the first time in one volume, The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Writings brings together not only Harte's best-known pieces including "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 -parodies of James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Dickens, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)

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HARTE, BRET

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The Luck of Roaring Camp: The Outcasts of Poker Flat ; [And] Tennessee's Partner

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The Luck of Roaring Camp: The Outcasts of Poker Flat; [and] Tennessee's Partner

Outcasts of Poker Flat

As Mr. John Oakhurst, gambler, stepped into the main street of Poker Flat on the morning of the twenty-third of November, 1850, he was conscious of a change in its moral atmosphere since the preceding night. Two or three men, conversing earnestly together, ceased as he approached, and exchanged significant glances. There was a Sabbath lull in the air which, in a settlement unused to Sabbath influences, looked ominous.

Literary

Signet Classics

Exiled from the town of Poker Flats as undesirables, a small group of men and women face death when they are snowbound in a mountain pass

The glorious fringe-inhabitants of Gold Rush California---the slick gambles, the impetuous but soft-hearted dance-hall girls, the mining camp eccentrics---are immortalized in these classic chronicles of the Far West of the nineteenth century.
THE RIGHT EYE OF THE COMMANDER; M'LISS: AN IDYL OF RED MOUNTAIN; THE LUCK OF ROARING CAMP; THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT; TENESSEE'S PARTNER; THE IDYL OF RED GULCH; BROWN OF CALAVERAS; MIGGLES; HOW SANTA CLAUS CAME TO SIMPSON'S BAR; MRS. SKAGG'S HUSBANDS; WAN LEE, THE PAGAN; A PASSAGE IN THE LIFE OF MR. JOHN OAKHURST; AN INGENUE OF THE SIERRAS AND A PROTEGEE OF JACK HAMLIN'S

Outcasts of Poker Flats

Genre Fiction

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The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)

The Luck of Roaring Camp: The Outcasts of Poker Flat ; [And] Tennessee's Partner

The Luck of Roaring Camp: The Outcasts of Poker Flat ; [And] Tennessee's Partner

Outcasts of Poker Flat

Outcasts of Poker Flat

Outcasts of Poker Flat

Outcasts of Poker Flat

Outcasts of Poker Flat

Outcasts of Poker Flat

Outcasts of Poker Flats