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Legends and Tales

Author
Bret Harte
Read by
Finian Silverwood
Language
English
Length
1 hour 44 minutes
ISBN
9781802567014
Published
28 June 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Bret Harte
  • stories
  • tales
  • satire
  • humour
  • social
  • justice
  • society
  • historical
  • American classic

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Description

Mining-camp legends, padres, devil’s points, and a night at Wingdam: Harte’s shorter California lore with humour, fate, and frontier colour. Spoken as western tales that feel half-told around a fire and half-cut with irony.

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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