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The outcasts of poker flat by Bret Harte. Publication date 1964 Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet Archive Language English. Notes. Cut-off text on some pages due to tight binding Obscured text on front cover and back cover due to sticker attached. Access-restricted-item true
The Outcasts of Poker Flat es una película estrenada en el año 1937 dirigida por Christy Cabanne . Está protagonizada por Preston Foster, Jean Muir, Van Heflin...The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster..
Article History. The Outcasts of Poker Flat, short story by Bret Harte, first published in the magazine Overland Monthly in 1869 and later published in the collection The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches (1870). It has become a minor classic of American literature. One of the best examples of Harte’s local-colour fiction, this story ...
Anne Baxter, Dale Robertson, Miriam Hopkins, Cameron Mitchell, Craig Hill, Barbara Bates. In Joseph Newman’s The Outcasts of Poker Flat, a small group of undesirables (a gambler, a drunk, a prostitute) are ejected from the town of Poker Flat as a precautionary measure after a deadly bank robbery that may have involved one of the townsfolk.
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Outcasts of Poker Flat’ is a short story by the American writer Bret Harte (1836-1902), published in 1869 in the Overland Monthly magazine. The story helped to confirm Harte’s reputation as an exciting new talent, and by 1871 he was the highest-paid writer in the country. ‘The Outcasts….
The outcasts must leave Poker Flat with armed guards because Oakhurst is “known to be a coolly desperate man, and for whose intimidation the armed escort was intended” (Paragraph 6). The other outcasts include a sex worker well known as “The Duchess,” an older sex worker “Mother Shipton,” and the intoxicated “Uncle Billy,” also ...
When "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" appeared in the January, 1869, issue of the California journal Overland Monthly, it was widely praised as yet another example of Bret Harte's literary genius. The ...
