Openings in the Old Trail

Name: Openings in the Old Trail
Author: Bret Harte
ISBN: 9781802567045

Author: Bret Harte
Read by: Finian Silverwood
Language: English
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes
ISBN: 9781802567045
Published: 28 June 2025
Imprint: Sovereign

Bret Harte
stories
tales
satire
humour
social
justice
society
historical
American classic

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California’s old trails are fading into settled roads, and Harte’s stories linger with aging pioneers, wanderers, and the humour that still hangs on. Memory and change share the same dusty towns. Spoken as western short fiction with sentiment and irony in the same breath.

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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Ebook · English · Sovereign9781911535140