Condensed Novels

by Bret Harte

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Condensed Novels is by Bret Harte. The contents list gives titles such as Handsome Is as Handsome Does and Muck-a-Muck, among others. The contents list marks Muck-a-Muck as after James Fenimore Cooper and Miss Mix as after Charlotte Bronte, among other entries.

A story headed Handsome Is as Handsome Does says the Dodds were dead and had slept twenty year under the green graves of Kittery churchyard. In one story a balloon darts upward and only one hand of that thousand catches the rope, Little's, while the spectators see him borne upward, still clinging to the rope, into space. In one story the Haunted Man, haunted no longer save by those shapes which make the dreams of children beautiful, sits down in his chair again and finishes Our Mutual Friend. A story headed Miss Mix has a speaker whose earliest impressions are of a huge, misshapen rock, against which the hoarse waves beat unceasingly.

About the author

Bret Harte

Bret Harte was an American short-story writer, poet, editor, and diplomat whose name became closely associated with literary depictions of California mining communities. As editor of the Overland Monthly, he published The Luck of Roaring Camp in 1868, the story that brought him broad recognition through its portrait of miners caring for an orphaned child.