The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales: With Condensed Novels, Spanish And American Legends, And Earlier Papers From The Writings Of Bret Harte - Softcover

Harte, Bret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1979879605 ISBN 13: 9781979879606

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

"He has been repeatedly cautioned, kindly and unkindly, intelligently and unintelligently, against his alleged tendency to confuse recognized standards of morality by extenuating lives of recklessness, and often criminality, with a single solitary virtue. He might easily show that he has never written a sermon, that he has never moralized or commented upon the actions of his heroes, that he has never voiced a creed or obtrusively demonstrated an ethical opinion. He might easily allege that this merciful effect of his art arose from the reader’s weak human sympathies, and hold himself irresponsible. But he would be conscious of a more miserable weakness in thus divorcing himself from his fellow-men who in the domain of art must ever walk hand in hand with him. So he prefers to say that, of all the various forms in which Cant presents itself to suffering humanity, he knows of none so outrageous, so illogical, so undemonstrable, so marvelously absurd, as the Cant of “Too Much Mercy.” When it shall be proven to him that communities are degraded and brought to guilt and crime, suffering or destitution, from a predominance of this quality; when he shall see pardoned ticket-of-leave men elbowing men of austere lives out of situation and position, and the repentant Magdalen supplanting the blameless virgin in society,—then he will lay aside his pen and extend his hand to the new Draconian discipline in fiction. But until then he will, without claiming to be a religious man or a moralist, but simply as an artist, reverently and humbly conform to the rules laid down by a Great Poet who created the parable of the “Prodigal Son” and the “Good Samaritan,” whose works have lasted eighteen hundred years, and will remain when the present writer and his generation are forgotten. And he is conscious of uttering no original doctrine in this, but of only voicing the beliefs of a few of his literary brethren happily living, and one gloriously dead, who never made proclamation of this 'from the housetops.'" -From the Introduction

CONTENTS:

PUBLISHERS’ NOTE

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

THE LUCK OF ROARING CAMP

THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT

MIGGLES

TENNESSEE’S PARTNER

THE IDYL OF BED GULCH

BROWN OF CALAVERAS

MUCK-A-MUCK

SELINA SEDILIA

THE NINETY-NINE GUARDSMEN

MISS MIX

MR. MIDSHIPMAN BEEEZY

GUY HEAVYSTONE; OR, “ENTIRE"

JOHN JENKINS

FANTINE

"LA FEMME"

THE DWELLER OF THE THRESHOLD

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NO TITLE

HANDSOME IS AS HANDSOME DOES

LOTHAW

THE HAUNTED MAN

TERENCE DENVILLE

MARY McGILLUP

THE HOODLUM BAND

M’LISS

HIGH-WATER MARK

A LONELY RIDE

THE MAN OF NO ACCOUNT

NOTES BY FLOOD AND FIELD

WAITING FOR THE SHIP

A NIGHT AT WINGDAM

THE LEGEND OF MONTE DEL DIABLO

THE RIGHT EYE OF THE COMMANDER

THE LEGEND OF DEVIL’S POINT

THE ADVENTURE OF PADRE VICENTIO

THE DEVIL AND THE BROKER

THE OGRESS OF SILVER LAND

THE CHRISTMAS GIFT THAT CAME TO RUPERT

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1979879605
• ISBN 13: 9781979879606
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 530