Bret Harte: Prince and Pauper

by Axel Nissen

Book Overview

A biography that charts the boom and bust of America's first celebrity author, once Mark Twain's chief rival in American literature

In this first scholarly biography of Bret Harte in nearly seventy years, Axel Nissen sets out to reevaluate the life and literary career of the legendary chronicler of the California gold rush.

After his sensational breakthrough in the late 1860s, Harte came to symbolize the self-made literary man. He...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578062535
• ISBN13: 9781578062539
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"