by Bret Harte · Bruguera · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788402067395
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«Bocetos californianos» is a collection of short stories by American writer Bret Harte, published by Bruguera in paperback (350 pages, in Spanish).
During the California gold rush, miners, gamblers and adventurers populate a far West that Harte portrays with irony and humor. The book brings together stories combining adventure, local color and social criticism, showing a frontier society in full transformation.
First edition of 1979 in the Libro Amigo collection, with a prologue by Jorge Luis Borges and translation by Enrique Hegewicz.
For readers interested in American short fiction and the West as a literary setting.
Francis Brett Hart, known as Bret Harte, was an American short story writer and poet best remembered for short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he also wrote poetry, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches.
