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Cressy
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Cressy is a novel by Bret Harte set in rural California, focusing on a schoolmaster and his relationship with Cressy McKinstry, a young woman among his students. It will appeal to readers of Harte's Western fiction and nineteenth-century American regional literature.
Bret Harte
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.
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