Short Stories and Poetry

He was born in Albany, New York.

An avid reader as a boy, Harte published his first work at age 11.

He spent part of his life in the northern California coastal town of Union (now known as Arcata).

During the twenty-four years he spent in Europe, he never abandoned writing, and maintained a prodigious output of stories that retained the freshness of his earlier work. He died in Camberley England in 1902 of throat cancer and is buried at Frimley.

Bret Harte was praised as uniquely American:

“A whispering pine of the Sierras transplanted to Fifth Avenue! How could it grow? Although it shows some faint signs of life, how sickly are the leaves! As for fruit, there is none. America had in Bret Harte its most distinctively national poet.”

This book is the collection of some of his famous short stories and poems. Much of his work was based on life in the Californian mining camps.

Hope you enjoy listening to them.

01 - The Luck of Roaring Camp
02 - The Outcasts of Poker Flat
03 - Miggles
04 - Tennessee’s Partner
05 - The Idyl of Red Gulch
06 - Brown of Calavares
07 - The Aged Stranger
08 - What the Bullet Sang
09 - The Christmas Gift
10 - Califonian Verse
11 - The Stage Driver’s Story