Электронная книга: Bret Harte «A Drift from Redwood Camp»
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Bret Harte
Bret Harte (
Life and career
He was born in Albany,
He moved to California in 1853, later working there in a number of capacities, including miner, teacher, messenger, and journalist. He spent part of his life in the northern California coast town now known as
The 1860 massacre of between 80 and 200 Wiyots killed at the village of Tutulwat was well documented historically and was reported in San Francisco and New York by a young American writer who would later use the pen name Bret Harte. Harte was working as a printer's helper and assistant editor at a local newspaper at the time, and his boss was temporarily absent, leaving Harte in charge of the paper. Harte published a detailed account condemning the event, writing, "a more shocking and revolting spectacle never was exhibited to the eyes of a Christian and civilized people. Old women wrinkled and decrepit lay weltering in blood, their brains dashed out and dabbled with their long grey hair. Infants scarcely a span along, with their faces cloven with hatchets and their bodies ghastly with wounds."Harte quit his job one month later and moved to San Francisco, where an anonymous letter published in a city paper is attributed to him, describing widespread community approval of the massacre.
His first literary efforts, including poetry and prose, appeared in "The Californian," an early literary journal edited by
When word of
Determined to pursue his literary career, in 1871 he and his family traveled back East, to
In 1878 Harte was appointed to the position of United States
Criticism
Writing in his autobiography four years after Harte's death,
Dramatic and musical adaptations of Harte's work
* Several film versions of "
*Operas based on "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" include those by
Other works
*"Plain Language from Truthful James", known also as "The Heathen Chinee", was a satire of racial prejudice in northern California, but was embraced by the American public as a mockery of Chinese immigrants, and shaped anti-Chinese sentiment more than any other work at the time.Scharnhorst, Gary. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0891-9356%28199612%2951%3A3%3C377%3A%22TADAO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K&size=LARGE "Ways That Are Dark": Appropriations of Bret Harte's "Plain Language from Truthful James"] . "Nineteenth-Century Literature", Vol. 51, No. 3 (Dec., 1996), pp. 377-399.] *" [http://www.bartleby.com/102/199.html The Society upon the Stanislaus] " is a tragicomic poem, like "Plain Language from Truthful James" set in the northern California mining camps, and told by the same narrator, "Truthful James". *The Beulah song "Ballad of the Lonely Argonaut" references "The Luck of Roaring Camp" and "Outcasts of Poker Flat" and asks, "How does it feel to roam this land like Harte and Twain did?" Legacy *Bret Harte Elementary School in Notes References * [http://www.poetry-archive.com/h/harte_bret_bibliography.html Complete bibliography] External links * [http://deadwoodrichfamousnoteable.blogspot.com/#ahsin Historical Deadwood Newspaper accounts of The Bret Harte and Mark Twain Collaboration Co-author play "Ah Sin" 1877, The Main Character and Namesake Ah Sin Comes to Deadwood 1883] Источник: Bret Harte
*Bret Harte Elementary School in
*Bret Harte Middle School in
*Bret Harte Middle School in Oakland and Hayward was named after him.
*Bret Harte High School in
*Bret Harte Elementary in
*A community called
*Bret Harte Road in
*Bret Harte Place in
*Bret Harte Alley in
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* [http://www.scusd.edu/ourschools/showSchoolDetail.asp?SchoolID=135 Bret Harte Elementary] in
*Bret Harte Elementary School in San Francisco
*In 1987 he appeared on a $5 U.S.
* [http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/harte.htm Online Bret Harte bibliography]
* [http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/search?author=harte&amode=words&title=&tmode=words Bret Harte Etexts]
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* [http://gettysburg.cdmhost.com/u?/p126301coll1,3 Bret Harte Photographs part of the Nineteenth Century Notables Digital Collection at Gettysburg College]
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