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Condensed Novels: New Burlesques

Author
Bret Harte
Read by
Finian Silverwood
Language
English
Length
2 hours 37 minutes
ISBN
9781802567007
Published
28 June 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Bret Harte
  • stories
  • tales
  • satire
  • humour
  • social
  • justice
  • society
  • historical
  • American classic

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Description

Harte shrinks famous novels into short comic hits: melodrama, swooning heroines, and impossible twists squeezed until they squeak. Spoken as literary mischief for anyone who loves old plots enough to laugh at them.

Author

Bret Harte (1836–1902) gave American literature one of its first great regional voices — the Gold Rush West rendered in short stories of luck, loyalty, and moral surprise. He saw California not as empty wilderness but as a theatre of human character: outcasts who discover dignity, camps that become temporary homes, and sentiment that arrives when least expected.

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