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THE WRITINGS OF BRET HARTE
THE LUCK OF ROARING CAMP AND OTHER TALES
WITH CONDENSED NOVELS, SPANISH AND AMERICAN LEGENDS, AND EARLIER
PAPERS
By BRET HARTE
_WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR_
PUBLISHERS' NOTE
In 1882, it was felt to be desirable that Mr. Harte's scattered work
should be brought together in convenient form, and the result was a
compact edition of five volumes. After that date, as before, he
continued to produce poems, tales, sketches, and romances in steady
succession, and in 1897 his publishers undertook a uniform and orderly
presentation of the results of more than thirty years of his literary
activity. The fourteen volumes that embodied those results were
enriched by Introductions and a Glossary prepared by Mr. Harte
himself.
The present Riverside Edition is based on the collection made in 1897,
but is enlarged by the inclusion of later work.
Boston, 4 Park Street, Autumn, 1902.
CONTENTS
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
THE LUCK OF ROARING CAMP AND OTHER SKETCHES. The Luck Of Roaring Camp
The Outcasts Of Poker Flat Miggles Tennessee's Partner The Idyl Of Red
Gulch Brown Of Calaveras
CONDENSED NOVELS. Muck-A-Muck: A Modern Indian Novel Selina Sedilia
The Ninety-Nine Guardsmen Miss Mix Mr. Midshipman Breezy: A Naval
Officer Guy Heavystone; Or, "Entire:" A Muscular Novel John Jenkins;
Or, The Smoker Reformed Fantine. After The French Of Victor Hugo "La
Femme." After The French Of M. Michelet The Dweller Of The Threshold
N. N.: Being A Novel In The French Paragraphic Style No Title Handsome
Is As Handsome Does Lothaw; Or, The Adventures Of A Young Gentleman In
Search Of A Religion The Haunted Man: A Christmas Story Terence
Denville Mary Mcgillup The Hoodlum Band; Or, The Boy Chief, The Infant
Politician, And The Pirate Prodigy
EARLIER SKETCHES. M'liss: An Idyl Of Red Mountain. I. Smith's Pocket
II. Which Contains A Dream Of The Just Aristides III. Under The
Greenwood Tree IV. Which Has A Good Moral Tendency V. "Open Sesame"
VI. The Trials Of Mrs. Morpher VII. The People vs. John Doe Waters
VIII. The Author To The Reader--Explanatory IX. Cleaning Up X. The Red
Rock High-Water Mark A Lonely Ride The Man Of No Account Notes By
Flood And Field Waiting For The Ship: A Fort Point Idyl A Night At
Wingdam
SPANISH AND AMERICAN LEGENDS. The Legend Of Monte Del Diablo The
Right Eye Of The Commander The Legend Of Devil's Point The Adventure
Of Padre Vicentio: A Legend Of San Francisco The Devil And The Broker:
A Medieval Legend The Ogress Of Silver Land; Or, The Diverting History
Of Prince Badfellah And Prince Bulleboye The Christmas Gift That Came
To Rupert: A Story For Little Soldiers
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
The opportunity here offered [Footnote: By the appearance in England
several years ago of an edition of the author's writings as then
collected.] to give some account of the genesis of these Californian
sketches, and the conditions under which they were conceived, is
peculiarly tempting to an author who has been obliged to retain a
decent professional reticence under a cloud of ingenious surmise,
theory, and misinterpretation. He very gladly seizes this opportunity
to establish the chronology of the sketches, and incidentally to show
that what are considered the "happy accidents" of literature are very
apt to be the results of quite logical and often prosaic processes.
The author's _first_ volume was published in 1865 in a thin book
of verse, containing, besides the titular poem, "The Lost Galleon,"
various patriotic contributions to the lyrics of the Civil War, then
raging, and certain better known humorous pieces, which have been
hitherto interspersed with his later poems in separate volumes, but
are now restored to their former companionship. This was followed in
1867 by "The Condensed Novels," originally contributed to the "San
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