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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The condensed novels of Bret Harte	Bret Harte	iv, 236 pages : 22 cm	OL1127702W
Sketches of the Sixties	Bret Harte,Mark Twain	Being Forgotten Material Now Collected for the First Time from the Californian, 1864-1867	OL1127938W
Colonel Starbottle's Client	Bret Harte	It may be remembered that it was the habit of that gallant war- horse of the Calaveras democracy, Colonel Starbottle, at the close of a political campaign, to return to his original profession of the…	OL1127987W
Snow-Bound at Eagle's	Bret Harte	For some moments profound silence and darkness had accompanied a Sierran stage-coach towards the summit. The huge, dim bulk of the vehicle, swaying noiselessly on its straps, glided onward and upwar…	OL1127997W
The Bell-Ringer of Angel's	Bret Harte	Where the North Fork of the Stanislaus River begins to lose its youthful grace, vigor, and agility, and broadens more maturely into the plain, there is a little promontory which at certain high stage…	OL1128016W
Clarence	Bret Harte	As Clarence Brant, President of the Robles Land Company, and husband of the rich widow of John Peyton, of the Robles Ranche, mingled with the outgoing audience of the Cosmopolitan Theatre, at San Fra…	OL1128017W
Words of Ages	Steffens, Lincoln,O'Sullivan, John L.,Bret Harte,Carl Sandburg,John Dos Passos,Sloan Wilson,Jonathan Edwards,William Bradford,Anne Moody,Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston,Elizabeth Cady Stanton,John Greenleaf Whittier,Taggard, Genevieve,John Woolman,Mark Twain,Ralph Waldo Emerson,Upton Sinclair,Dorothy Parker,Leon Uris,Denise Levertov,Henry David Thoreau,Washington Irving,Anne Bradstreet,Edith Wharton,Elie Wiesel,Annie Dillard,George Fitzhugh,Henry James,Robert Beverley,Jack Kerouac,Arthur Miller,Hamlin Garland,E. E. Cummings,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Abraham Cahan,Willa Cather,Meridel Le Sueur,Zora Neale Hurston,Tom Wolfe,Walt Whitman,Martin Luther King Jr.,John Hershey,Philip A. Roth,Rudyard Kipling,Stephen Crane,Tim O'Brien,John Steinbeck,Benjamin Franklin,John Jay,Frederick Douglass,John Smith,Langston Hughes,W. E. B. Du Bois,Harriet A. Jacobs,Bob Dylan,Louisa May Alcott,Nathaniel Hawthorne,John Adams,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Mary Crow Dog,Herman Melville,Close Up Foundation,William Tecumseh Sherman,Philip Morin Freneau,David Halberstam,E. B. White,Robert Olen Butler,Toni Morrison,Thomas Paine,Jose De Diego,Ralph Ellison,Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman,James D. Houston,Meriwether Lewis,Margaret Fuller,James Fenimore Cooper,Abigail Adams,Countee Cullen,Nat Love,Winthrop, John,Thomas Jefferson,Black Elk,Ernest Howard Crosby,Sandra Cisneros,Hart Crane,Rebecca Harding Davis,Martha Gellhorn,Olaudah Equiano,Clifford Odets,Malcolm X,Juan Nepomuceno Seguín,Francis E. Watkins Harper,Judy Brady,Booker T. Washington,Angelina Weld Grimké,William Clark	Explorers and early settlers -- The general history of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles / John Smith -- The history and present state of Virginia / Robert Beverley -- Of Plymouth Planta…	OL14876177W
Horror Classics	Bret Harte,Howard Roger Garis,W. W. Jacobs,Fitz-James O'Brien,Ambrose Bierce,H.P. Lovecraft,Edgar Allan Poe,Honoré de Balzac,Rod Lott,Antonella Caputo,Tom Pomplun,Jack London,Saki,Olive Schreiner,Clark Ashton Smith	The mummy / Ambrose Bierce -- The thing on the doorstep / H.P. Lovecraft -- Some words with a mummy / Edgar Allan Poe -- In a far-off world / Olive Schreiner -- The thing at Ghent / Honoré de Ba…	OL14937030W
Men and Women	Bret Harte,Katherine Anne Porter,Stephen Crane,John Updike,Joyce Carol Oates,Kate Chopin,Alice Munro	Contains: Bret Harte The Idyl of Red Gulch, Stephen Crane The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky , Kate Chopin [The Story of an Hour][1], Katherine Anne Porter Rope , Joyce Carol Oates Customs, Alice …	OL14943669W
Great American Short Stories	Bret Harte,Ernest Hemingway,Mark Twain,Charles Waddell Chesnutt,Henry James,Ambrose Bierce,Willa Cather,Stephen Crane,Sherwood Anderson,Nathaniel Hawthorne,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Paul Negri,Edgar Allan Poe,Sarah Orne Jewett,Herman Melville,Theodore Dreiser,Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman,Kate Chopin,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Jack London	Contents: Nathaniel Hawthorne: [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) (1835) -- Edgar Allan Poe: [The tell-tale heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) (1843) -- H…	OL15430879W
The United States in Literature	Bret Harte,Carl Sandburg,Ernest Hemingway,Day, Clarence,Mark Twain,Dorothy Parker,Henry David Thoreau,Washington Irving,James Thurber,O. Henry,Theodore Hornberger,Theresa Helburn,Ogden Nash,Jesse Stuart,Douglas Southall Freeman,Walt Whitman,Stephen Crane,Stephen Vincent Benét,Benjamin Franklin,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Eugene O'Neill,Edgar Allan Poe,Thornton Wilder,Paul Farmer,Walter Blair,Brad Schulberg,Robert C. Pooley	Contains: PART I: American Life Through Literature A. THE GROWTH OF A NATION 23 UNIT I: SETTLING THE SEABOARD 24 Captain Smith Among the Indians John Smith 25 America's First Great Lady Donal…	OL16036156W
Great American Short Stories	Bret Harte,Ernest Hemingway,Mark Twain,Washington Irving,Edith Wharton,Henry James,O. Henry,Ambrose Bierce,William Faulkner,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Willa Cather,Stephen Crane,John Steinbeck,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Edgar Allan Poe,Sarah Orne Jewett,Herman Melville,Flannery O'Connor,Jack London	Washington Irving -- The legend of sleepy hollow -- The spectre bridegroom -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W/Young_Goodman_Brown) [Rappaccin…	OL16045961W
Great American Short Stories [34 stories]	Bret Harte,Richard Connell,Heywood Broun,Ernest Hemingway,Marc Connelly,Mark Twain,Edith Wharton,Henry James,O. Henry,Ambrose Bierce,William Faulkner,Jesse Stuart,John O'Hara,John Cheever,Ray Bradbury,Stephen Crane,John Steinbeck,Stephen Vincent Benét,John Updike,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Edgar Allan Poe,Herman Melville,Eudora Welty,Richard Wright,Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman,The Editors of The Reader's Digest,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Pearl S. Buck,Jack London,Shirley Ann Grau,Ring Lardner,Shirley Jackson,Kay Boyle,Walter Van Tilburg Clark,Susan Glaspell,Damon Runyon,Readers Digest Editors	Contains: Winter Dreams What Stumped the Bluejays To Build a Fire A Jury of Her Peers The Storm The Pioneer Hep-Cat The Furnished Room I Can’t Breathe The Short Happy Life of Francis Macombe…	OL16481148W
The best American humorous short stories	Caroline M. Kirkland,George William Curtis,Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.,Bret Harte,Grace MacGowan Cooke,George Randolph Chester,Richard Malcolm Johnston,Mark Twain,Eliza Leslie,O. Henry,George Pope Morris,Wells Hastings,Alexander Jessup,Henry Cuyler Bunner,William James Lampton,Edgar Allan Poe,Edward Everett,Frank R. Stockton,Harry Stillwell Edwards	The Best American Humorous Short Stories features tales from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain and many other well known writers. From the editor:This volume does not aim to contain …	OL16733811W
Great Classic Mysteries II	Bret Harte,Jacques Futrelle,Arthur Conan Doyle,Mark Twain,Gilbert Keith Chesterton,Melville Davisson Post,O. Henry,Ambrose Bierce,Maurice Leblanc,Edgar Allan Poe,Kate Chopin,R. Austin Freeman,Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy,Anna Katharine Green	The oblong box / Edgar Allan Poe ; narrated by Mauro Hantman -- The stolen white elephant / Mark Twain ; narrated by Mauro Hantman -- An heiress from Redhorse / Ambrose Bierce ; narrated by Angela …	OL17415140W
Great humorous stories	Harry Secombe,Bret Harte,Barry Pain,Seán O'Faoláin,Basil Boothroyd,Iris Murdoch,P. G. Wodehouse,Geoffrey Willans,H. F. Ellis,George S. Kaufman,David Niven,Nathaniel Gubbins,Douglas Sutherland,Phyllis Eleanor Bentley,Mark Twain,Gilbert Keith Chesterton,Dorothy Parker,Oscar Wilde,James Thurber,John Verney,O. Henry,Jerome Klapka Jerome,Max Apple,John Wyndham,Burdette, Robert J.,Rudyard Kipling,Frederic Raphael,Douglas Adams,Peter Ustinov,Arnold Bennett,Gerald Malcolm Durrell,James Herriot,Mole, John,William Somerset Maugham,David Nobbs,Groucho Marx,Keith Waterhouse,Alasdair Gray,Bob Larbey,Ronald Searle,Rob Buckman,Sue Townsend,Paul Theroux,George Grossmith,Auberon Waugh,Arthur Marshall,Stephen Leacock,Ring Lardner,E. F. Benson,Neil Boyd,Fran Lebowitz,C. Northcote Parkinson,Saki,Weedon Grossmith,Giovannino Guareschi,Robert Robinson,Nancy Mitford,Joyce Grenfell,Art Buchwald,Damon Runyon,E. M. Delafield,A. C. Games,Jean Davis,Patrick Campbell	RONNIE CORBETT: Introduction P.G. WODEHOUSE: 'The Voice from the Past' RING LARDNER: Mr and Mrs Fix-It H.F. ELLIS: Lent Term 1939 The Man Faggott (from The Papers of A.J. Wentworth, BA) …	OL19302720W
The Horse Story Megapack	Katherine Mayo,F. Anstey,Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.,Bret Harte,Henry Lawson,William Henry Harrison Murray,Arthur Conan Doyle,Mary Wickizer Burgess,Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen,Mark Twain,Ambrose Bierce,William Butler Yeats,Adam White,Amy Steedman,William Dean Howells,Jonathan Swift,Anna Sewell,Thomas Bingley,John Hay,Robert Reginald,Sewell Ford,George Bird Grinnell,Voltaire,Djuna Barnes,H. Beam Piper,A. B. Paterson,Plutarch,Eugene Field,William Hope Hodgson,Mark E. Burgess	The horse has been championed throughout history as a war machine, a means of transport, an adjunct to farming, a source of popular entertainment, and, finally, as a true friend and companion. So it'…	OL19336173W
The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1	Bret Harte,John Brown,Thomas Hardy,Daniel Defoe,Mark Twain,Washington Irving,Henry James,Charles Dickens,James Hogg,Robert Louis Stevenson,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Edgar Allan Poe,Frank R. Stockton	I. THE EVOLUTION OF THE SHORT-STORY II. THE APPARITION OF MRS. VEAL. By Daniel Defoe (1661-1731) III. THE MYSTERIOUS BRIDE. By James Hogg (1770-1835) IV. THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER. By Washington Ir…	OL264002W
Classic American Short Stories	Bret Harte,Mark Twain,Washington Irving,Henry James,O. Henry,Ambrose Bierce,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Edgar Allan Poe,Vincent Foster Hopper	Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- The ambitious guest ; [Minister's Black Veil](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455342W) ; Ethan Brand ; Endicott and the Red Cross / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- [The…	OL3360282W
The Penguin Book of American Short Stories	Bret Harte,Ernest Hemingway,Katherine Anne Porter,Mark Twain,Washington Irving,Henry James,O. Henry,Ambrose Bierce,William Faulkner,Willa Cather,Bernard Malamud,Truman Capote,Stephen Crane,Sherwood Anderson,J. Cochrane,Nathaniel Hawthorne,John Updike,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Edgar Allan Poe,Herman Melville,James Cochrane,Jack London,Ring Lardner,Cochrane, James.	The legend od Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne [The fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/O…	OL4005989W