There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.From their pens to your your ears. 01 - 3 Stories About - Life & Existence02 - The Four Fists by F Scott Fitzgerald03 - Mold of the Earth by Boleslaw Prus04 - The Luck of Roaring Camp by Bret Harte
Cherokee Sal, the only woman in a remote mining camp dies while giving birth. The child is called Luck and is adopted by the complete camp. This exciting story is a touching tale of how the birth of a child brings together an entire community of men in an effort to care and raise the child in the harsh mining environment.
Although American author Bret Harte is most readily associated with stories about the West, it is his skill with characterization that distinguishes him from the hundreds of others who set fictional tales in the region. The miners, soldiers, gamblers, entrepreneurs, and lost souls who populate these pages are limned with Harte's unique combination of dry wit and tender pathos.This charming collection of Harte's short stories focuses on life in old California and includes "Openings in the Old Trail," "Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff," "The Landlord of the Big Flume Hotel," "A Buckeye Hollow Inheritance," "The Reincarnation of Smith," "Lanty Foster's Mistake," "An Ali Baba of the Sierras," "Miss Peggy's Proteges," and "The Goddess of Excelsior."
When a Cherokee Sal dies giving birth to her son in a prospecting camp, the gold miners adopt him as their own. They name him Thomas Luck, as he seems to indicate a change in fortune for the camp. The miners start to turn their lives around in order to be a better example to the shining boy. But just as their ship seems to have come in, disaster hits and it soon goes out again in this gripping, yet tragic work of historical fiction.
Originally published in Harte's 1875 short-story collection The Tales of the Argonauts, How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar is set in California in the early 1860s and, like the rest of the tales in that collection, features the gold-seeking Argonauts. In this tale, like many of Harte's others, the folly and grit of human existence balance any good intentions, good cheer, or hope, resulting in a more complicated and somewhat bleak ending than is commonly found in most Christmas tales. This recording of How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar was recorded as part of Dreamscape's Classic Christmas Stories: A Collection of Timeless Holiday Tales.
Theatre Royal. The very name summons up something of grandeur and eloquence. And it was. Hosted by Laurence Olivier, these big-name productions also included the creme de la creme of acting talents from John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, and Orson Welles to Trevor Howard, Michael Redgrave and Olivier himself. They were based on works by the worlds' leading authors, among them Charles Dickens, Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Anton Chekhov. These are but a few of whose company we shall be keeping as we raise the curtain on our first instalment of theatrical history.
This collection features a selection of classic short stories and poems by legendary Western authors Stephen Crane, Bret Harte, and Jack London.
Stephen Crane
"The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" read by William Windom
"The Black Riders" (poem) read by Stefan Rudnicki
"The Five White Mice" read by Arte Johnson
"The Blue Hotel" read by Stefan Rudnicki
"His New Mittens" read by Robert Forster
"A Newspaper..." (poem) read by Stefan Rudnicki
"The Little Regiment" read by Stephen Hoye
Bret Harte
"The Outcasts of Poker Flat" read by William Windom
"Mary's Album" (poem) read by Stefan Rudnicki
"Brown of Calaveras" read by Stephen Hoye
"The Society upon the Stanislaw" (poem) read by Stefan Rudnicki
"Tennessee's Partner" read by Robert Forster
"The Luck of Roaring Camp" read by Stefan Rudnicki
"The Pony Express" (poem) read by Stefan Rudnicki
"The Idyl of Red Gulch" read by Rex Linn
"Lines to a Portrait" (poem) read by Stefan Rudnicki
"How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar" read by William Windom
Jack London
"That Spot" read by Arte Johnson
"War" read by David Birney
"Moon-Face" read by William Windom
"To Build a Fire" read by Stefan Rudnicki
More than 100 years after his first short stories began to appear in the late 1850s, Western writer Bret Harte remains thoroughly embedded in the American literary tradition-the creator of some of our most venerable literary traditions. Since Harte, Western gamblers must have some of the self-contained poise, readiness, and chivalry of Jack Hamlin. The schoolmarms owe much to Harte's Miss Mary, created long before Molly Wood from The Virginian.
A master of prose, economy and humor, Hart influenced the whole local color school, and while he did not invent the short story, he had an enormous influence in popularizing it through the expanding magazine trade. Explore Gold Rush California in these classic chronicles of the old West. Includes these short stories: The Luck of Roaring Camp, Tennessee's Partner, The Idyl of Red Gulch, How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar, Brown of Calaveras, Miggles, A Passage in the Life of Mr. John Oakhurst, and The Outcasts of Poker Flat.
Society has forgiven Jo Corbin for killing a man, but can he forgive himself? Will the postmistress lose all in a bid to help a friend escape justice? Will the new teaching assistant's unorthodox ways tame the unruly pioneer children? These are just three of the nine wonderful short stories from Bret Harte, set in wild and woolly nineteenth-century California.
Bret Harte's witty, sometimes heart-rending tales of frontier California earned him acclaim during the 1860s as the new prophet of American letters. His books-The Luck of Roaring Camp, The Outcasts of Poker Flat, and M'liss-helped establish the foundations of western American fiction. This book includes the following classic tales:
-"Colonel Starbottle's Client"
-"The Postmistress of Laurel Run"
-"A Night at Hays"
-"Johnson's Old Woman"
-"The New Assistant at Pine Clearing School"
-"In a Pioneer Restaurant"
-"A Treasure of the Galleon"
-"Out of a Pioneer's Trunk"
-"The Ghosts of Stukeley Castle"
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