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Fiction · 1875

Urban Sketches

Bret Harte

Reading time
about 1.5 h
Length
19,372 words · 81 pages
Structure
16 chapters
Language
English
Era
Victorian

Urban Sketches, first published in 1875, 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. A Venerable Impostor
  2. From a Balcony
  3. Melons
  4. Surprising Adventures of Master Charles Summerton
  5. Sidewalkings
  6. Charitable Reminiscences
  7. “Seeing the Steamer Off”
  8. I — Neighborhoods I Have Moved from
  9. II
  10. III
  11. My Suburban Residence
  12. I
  13. II
  14. III
  15. On a Vulgar Little Boy
  16. Waiting for the Ship

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Bret Harte

1836–1902 · Victorian

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