Search the Library:

Search within Results
Put exact phrases in double quotes
» Advanced Search
Search in:
  • Books
  • Journals
  • Magazines
  • Newspapers
  • Encyclopedia
  • Research Topics
  • Uncheck All
Collection(s):
Lexile:
 (Optional)   What is Lexile?
Minimum:
Maximum:
Exact:
Please select at least one (1) media type and then click on "Search".
Please select at least one (1) content type and then click on "Search".

Your search for: bret AND harte


Collection(s) searched :  Entire Library

 

Found 1,199 results:

Books:   1,081
  |  
Journal Articles:   60
  |  
Magazine Articles:   38

Newspaper Articles:   11
  |  
Encyclopedia Articles:   9

Research Topics on: bret harte

1 results - List All Research Topics


Books on: bret harte

1,081 results - MORE BOOK RESULTS: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>

MORE BOOK RESULTS: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>

Top

Journal Articles on: bret harte

60 results - MORE JOURNAL RESULTS: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>

MORE JOURNAL RESULTS: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>

Top

Magazine Articles on: bret harte

38 results - MORE MAGAZINE RESULTS: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-38

MORE MAGAZINE RESULTS: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-38

Top

Newspaper Articles on: bret harte

11 results - MORE NEWSPAPER RESULTS: 1-10 11-11

  • 1.


    When Writers Get Petty
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 29, 2002
    Subjects: 
    Capote, Truman, Harte, Bret, Hellman, Lillian, McCarthy, Mary, Nabokov, Vladimir, Snow, C. P., Twain, Mark, Updike, John, Wilson, Edmund, Wolfe, Tom
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...glimpses into the lives of Mark Twain and Bret Harte, Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein...all know Mark Twain, but mention Bret Hartes name and some rather sophisticated...he was in a different league than Harte. That Harte was a drunk - how many...
     
  • 2.


    Old John Burns of Gettysburg
    Newspaper article by Peter Cliffe; The Washington Times, January 20, 2001
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...mean part. The poet Francis Brett Harte (1839-1902), born in Albany, N.Y., who wrote as Bret Harte, saluted the grand old veteran in...stanzas of unequal length. While Harte undoubtedly gave full rein to his...
     
  • 3.


    A Civil War Soldier's Realistic Tale
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 10, 2002
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...writer and a genuine man of action. It is worth noting that such contemporaries as Walt Whitman, Howells, Henry James, Bret Harte and Mark Twain (who had a two-week stint in a Confederate militia unit) largely avoided military service during the...
     
  • 4.


    Lump of Coal at 'Christmas'; Five Miners and a Baby Give Meaning to Family
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 12, 2006
    Subjects: 
    Coal industry, Coal mining
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...you have "The Christmas Foundling," local playwright Norman Allens dead-earnest tale, inspired by the stories of Bret Harte, about what constitutes a family. In this case, its a group of crusty coal miners living in the Sierra foothills of...
     
  • 5.


    Recent Home and Property Sales
    Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), October 28, 2008
    Subjects: 
    Banking industry, Wells Fargo Bank N.A.
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Charles, 60175; sold Aug. 25, by Brian R. Tatu to Kevin E. Baird and Timothy F. Baird. $484,000; 40W362 Francis Bret Harte St., St. Charles, 60175; sold Aug. 20, by Chicago Title Land Trt. Co. Trustee to Melissa A. Flasch and Andrew...
     

MORE NEWSPAPER RESULTS: 1-10 11-11

Top

Encyclopedia Articles on: bret harte

9 results MORE ENCYCLOPEDIA RESULTS: 1-9

  • 1.


    Harte, Bret
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    HARTE, BRET (Francis Brett Harte)hart, 1836 1902, American writer of short stories and humorous...1966) and A. Nissen (2000); M. Duckett, Mark Twain and Bret Harte (1964). ____________________ Copyright 2009...
     
  • 2.


    Bok, Edward William
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...articles and crusades to a medium previously restricted to light entertainment. Bok published fiction by Howells, Twain, Bret Harte, and Kipling and articles by several American Presidents. Of the books he wrote, his autobiographical Americanization...
     
  • 3.


    Mother Lode
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Nevada. The discovery of alluvial gold on the South Fork of the American River led to the 1848 gold rush. Mark Twain and Bret Harte helped make the Mother Lode famous. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press...
     
  • 4.


    Weinberger, Jaromir
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...the Spreading Chestnut Tree (1939). Other works are the operas Outcasts of Poker Flat (1932; based on the story by Bret Harte) and Wallenstein (1937), and the ballet Saratoga (1941). ____________________ Copyright 2009...
     
  • 5.


    American Literature
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...popularity, as writings of regional origin began to find a mass audience. The stories of the California gold fields by Bret Harte , the rustic novel ( The Hoosier Schoolmaster ; 1871) of Edward Eggleston , the rhymes of James Whitcomb Riley , the...
     

MORE ENCYCLOPEDIA RESULTS: 1-9

Top