The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Bret Harte
- First Published: 1870
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Child rearing or parenting, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Gambling, Nineteenth century, Prostitution or prostitutes, California, West, U.S., Mines, miners, or mining, Childbirth, Southwest, Orphans or orphanages, Gold mines or mining, Luck or misfortune
Critical Evaluation:
Few authors ever achieve the astonishing literary success that Bret Harte did during his lifetime. His enormously popular stories of California life were in great demand by magazine editors all over the country, and the Atlantic Monthly offered the unprecedented amount of ten thousand dollars for the sole rights to one year of Harte’s literary production.
Such enormous popularity is, however, seldom consistent with a lasting literary reputation. Harte reached his artistic maturity at the age of thirty-one and the quality of his work began to...
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