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Fiction · 1873

Mrs. Skagg’s Husbands and Other Stories

Bret Harte

Reading time
about 3 h
Length
39,547 words · 144 pages
Structure
7 chapters
Language
English
Era
Victorian

Mrs. Skagg’s Husbands and Other Stories, first published in 1873, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.

Contents

  1. Part I — West
  2. Part II — Mrs. Skaggs’s Husbands: East
  3. How Santa Claus Came to Simpson’s Bar
  4. The Princess Bob and Her Friends
  5. The Iliad of Sandy Bar
  6. Mr Thompson’s Prodigal
  7. The Romance of Madrono Hollow
  8. The Poet of Sierra Flat
  9. A Story for Little Soldiers

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Bret Harte

1836–1902 · Victorian

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