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Bret Harte is best known for his stories of the pioneering days in California, so this humorous parody of English Gothic novels is a delightful departure. Harte sets his unlikely tale in Regency England with all the cliches and plot conventions present in abundance. The two main characters Lady Selina and Edgardo hide their amoral pasts from each other, unaware that they're a perfectly suited couple. In the mix are mysterious villains, dark secrets, past scandals, forbidden romance, hidden panels, murders, ghosts, all ending with the requisite deus ex machina conclusion.

This is a collection of tales of the California Gold Rush era by the Western author, Bret Harte. It's a mix of local color, drama, and humor. Several film versions of "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" have been made, and John Payne and Ronald Reagan starred in an adaptation of "Tennessee's Partner" in 1955. The spaghetti Western Four of the Apocalypse is based on "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" and "The Luck of Roaring Camp".

Radiospektakl' "Schastlivec Barker" po odnoimennomu rasskazu Breta Garta, amerikanskogo prozaika, kotoryj proslavilsja realisticheskimi opisanijami zhizni zolotoiskatelej v Kalifornii.

Fully restored and remastered, Heritage Media presents the greatest of vintage artists in classic dramas of the early America’s. Here is the legendary Laurence Olivier starring in ‘The Luck of Roaring Camp’, adapted from the original tale by Bret Harte and ‘The Outcasts of Poker Flat’ also adapted by Bret Harte.Theatre Royal is a unique series of classic radio dramas produced in the 1950's by the late Harry Alan Towers.

This story, one of Harte's most anthologized, first appeared in The Luck of Roading Camp and Other Stories.

A motley crew, banished from a Western town, find strength, and weakness, in each other.

Here is a tale that concerns the incredible power of friendship. The movie Tennessee's Partner (1955), starring John Payne and Ronald Reagan, was based on this story.

The lure of the American West is in the spirit of adventure, in the majestic expanse of unconquered wilderness and in rugged individuals on a quest for identity and sometimes for survival. Owen Wister's unsmiling Virginian... Dorothy M. Johnson's, "A Man Called Horse": These are a few of the colorful, even legendary characters who populate The American West in Fiction, a collection of stories edited by Jon Tuska.

Although American author Bret Harte is most readily associated with stories about the West, it is his skill with characterization that distinguishes him from the hundreds of others who set fictional tales in the region. The miners, soldiers, gamblers, entrepreneurs, and lost souls who populate these pages are limned with Harte's unique combination of dry wit and tender pathos. This charming collection of Harte's short stories focuses on life in old California.

Stories von Bret Harte, dem Erfinder der Wildwestgeschichte. Es geht um einsame Reiter, die widerwillig zu Helden werden, um harte Männer...

Stories von Bret Harte, dem Erfinder der Westerngeschichte, von einsamen Reitern, die widerwillig zu Helden werden, von Glücksspielern...

Die Stadt Poker Flat will sich ungeliebter Einwohner entledigen. Ein Glücksspieler, ein Dieb und zwei Prostituierte werden aus der Stadt gejagt...

Packende Erzählungen von Bret Harte, dem Erfinder der Westerngeschichte. Schnörkellose Geschichten um Glücksspiel, harte Männer...

Die schönsten und packendsten Wildwest-Stories von Bret Harte. Einsame Reiter, die zu Helden werden. Männer, die den ewigen Kampf zwischen Gut und...

Bret Harte paints a timeless portrait of undesirables who are forced to leave a self-righteous town, and who, in the face of oncoming winter and in the company of a pair of innocents, learn to become bigger than themselves.

When a Cherokee Sal dies giving birth to her son in a prospecting camp, the gold miners adopt him as their own. They name him Thomas Luck, as he seems to indicate a change in fortune for the camp. The miners start to turn their lives around in order to be a better example to the shining boy. But just as their ship seems to have come in, disaster hits, and it soon goes out again in this gripping yet tragic work of historical fiction.

Poker Flat is cleaning house. John Oakhurst is allowed to leave of his own accord along with a few others who didn’t quite match society’s ideals. Maybe they got off good. Others had been hung from nearby sycamore trees. Who was good? Who was bad? Who was innocent? Questions to ponder as you listen to this classic short story narrated by Glenn Hascall.

Francis Bret Harte (1839-1902) was an American short story writer and poet, best remembered for his short stories set against the background of the California gold rush. He himself set off at the age of 15 to become a gold miner and absorbed the rough atmosphere of the mining camps, which he used as a setting against which the interplay of human emotions stands out poignantly. 'Miggles' is an outstanding example of his humorously tender style which made his stories so popular.

Спектакль "Млисс" по мотивам одноименного рассказа американского прозаика Брета Гарта. В Калифорнии на склоне красной горы расположен небольшой поселок. Его не так давно основал неудачливый золотоискатель - отец чумазой дикарки Млисс, которую так не любит преподобный Мак-Снегли. Кто бы мог подумать, что Млисс, лохматый сорванец в юбке, мечтает учиться? И на ее удачу в единственную школу поселка поступает на работу молодой учитель.

Originally published in Harte's 1875 short-story collection The Tales of the Argonauts, "How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar" is set in California in the early 1860s and, like the rest of the tales in that collection, features the gold-seeking Argonauts. In this tale, like many of Harte's others, the folly and grit of human existence balance any good intentions, good cheer, or hope, resulting in a more complicated and somewhat bleak ending than is commonly found in most Christmas tales.