The City's Voice: Pioneer Prose and Poetry from the Overland MonthlyDevorah Knaff Santa Ana River Press, 2004 - 335 páginas "A collection of essays, poems and short stories published between 1868 and 1875 in The Overland Monthly, California's first successful literary journal. Included is the work of Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Ina Coolbrith, Ambrose Bierce and Joaquin Miller"--Provided by publisher. |
Contenido
Fate by F Bret Harte | 42 |
Science by A G Bierce | 52 |
Introduction | 183 |
Plain Language from Truthful James by F Bret Harte | 195 |
The Haunted Valley by A G Bierce | 205 |
The Six Chinese Companies by the Rev A W Loomis | 216 |
LIFE IN THE MODERN WESTERN METROPOLIS | 225 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Abd-ul-Aziz acres American beautiful Bret Harte California Can-can cañon cat-fish China Chinamen Chinese civilization coast Cosmopolitan customers dinner dollars door Eastern eyes Fairway farm feeling feet fish flowers foreign French fruit gold golden grapes half hand head heathen Chinee Henry rifle hills horse hundred Indian Joaquin Miller labor land less live look ment miles miner mining Miss Mary morning mountain Napoleon III natural ness never night once orange Overland Monthly Pacific passed Placer mining plain population Prentice Mulford present prosperity quails railroad rain restaurants rich Rincon Hill river road Russian Hill Sacramento San Francisco savage season seen Shakes Sierras snow soil streets things thought thousand tion took trees turned valley wealth wine Yosemite young