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Bocetos Californianos
Bocetos californianos es un libro escrito por Bret Harte el cual pertenece al género Relato, Literatura, Cuentos y relatos . Originalmente fue publicado en 1979 Junto al título Bocetos californianos, actualmente tenemos registrados otros 3 libros del autor Bret Harte. La vastedad de las desiertas regiones ganadas para los Estados Unidos en el Oeste obligó a sus pobladores a ejercer las más diversas actividades. Así BRET HARTE (1836-1902), nacido en Albany, amigo y protector de Mark Twain, fue sucesivamente maestro de escuela, empleado de farmacia, minero, mensajero, tipógrafo, reportero, autor de cuentos cortos, colaborador regular del Golden Era y, a partir de 1868, director de la importante revista Overland Monthly. En sus páginas aparecieron esas breves y patéticas obras maestras «The Luck of Roaring Camp» (La suerte de Roaring Camp), «The Outcasts of Poker Flat» (Los expulsados de Poker Flat), «Tennessee’s Partner» (El socio de Tennessee), que el autor reuniría bajo el título de The Californian Sketches (Bocetos californianos) y que fueron, acaso, una revelación del Oeste. Un poema humorístico The Heathen Chinne (El chino pagano), lo hizo famoso desde el Pacífico al Atlántico. En 1878, a pedido suyo, fue nombrado cónsul en la ciudad de Crefeld, en Prusia, y luego en Glasgow. Sus últimos años los pasó en Londres.
108 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1979
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About the author
Bret Harte
3,174 books63 followersPeople note American writer Francis Bret Harte for
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches
(1870), his best-known collection of his stories about California mining towns.
People best remember this poet for his short-story fiction, featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the Gold Rush. In a career, spanning more than four decades, he wrote poetry, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches in addition to fiction. As he moved from California to the eastern United States to Europe, he incorporated new subjects and characters into his stories, but people most often reprinted, adapted, and admired his tales of the Gold Rush.
Parents named him after Francis Brett, his great-grandfather. Bernard Hart, paternal grandfather of Francis and an Orthodox Jewish immigrant, flourished as a merchant and founded the New York stock exchange. Henry, father of the young Francis, changed the spelling of the family name from Hart to Harte. Later, Francis preferred that people know his middle name, which he spelled Bret with only one t.
An avid reader as a boy, Harte at 11 years of age published his first work, a satirical poem, titled "Autumn Musings", now lost. Rather than attracting praise, the poem garnered ridicule from his family. As an adult, he recalled to a friend, "Such a shock was their ridicule to me that I wonder that I ever wrote another line of verse". His formal schooling ended at 13 years of age in 1849.
People best remember this poet for his short-story fiction, featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the Gold Rush. In a career, spanning more than four decades, he wrote poetry, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches in addition to fiction. As he moved from California to the eastern United States to Europe, he incorporated new subjects and characters into his stories, but people most often reprinted, adapted, and admired his tales of the Gold Rush.
Parents named him after Francis Brett, his great-grandfather. Bernard Hart, paternal grandfather of Francis and an Orthodox Jewish immigrant, flourished as a merchant and founded the New York stock exchange. Henry, father of the young Francis, changed the spelling of the family name from Hart to Harte. Later, Francis preferred that people know his middle name, which he spelled Bret with only one t.
An avid reader as a boy, Harte at 11 years of age published his first work, a satirical poem, titled "Autumn Musings", now lost. Rather than attracting praise, the poem garnered ridicule from his family. As an adult, he recalled to a friend, "Such a shock was their ridicule to me that I wonder that I ever wrote another line of verse". His formal schooling ended at 13 years of age in 1849.
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June 6, 2019
Sólo me gustó una historia "La suerte de Roaring Camp"
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