Charles Dudley Warner
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"The Story of Pocahontas" is a biographical account of the life of Pocahontas (1596–1617), a Native American woman famous for her connection to the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. It covers everything from her capture and conversion to Christianity, to her arrival in London and subsequent celebrity.
2) As We Go
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"As We Go" is a collection of 26 short stories by Charles Dudley Warner. They include: "Our president", "The newspaper-made man", "Interesting Girls", "Give the Men a Chance", "The advent of Candor", "The American Man", "The electric way", "Can a Husband Open a Wife's Letters?", "A leisure class", "Weather and character", "Born with an 'ego'", "Zuventus Mundi", and more.
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Written in Warner's humorous and elegant style, Relation of Literature to Life (1896) is a collection of essays emphasizing the author's belief that all enduring literature is the result of the time in which it is produced and that it responds to that time's general sentiment. In other words, these essays describe "the connection between our literary, educational, and social progress." In addition to the title essay, others are on such diverse subjects...
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"Our Italy" is a fascinating treatise on half-century Italy by Charles Dudley Warner, with chapters on politics, geography, economy, history, agriculture, and much more. Contents include: "How Our Italy Is Made", "Our Climatic And Commercial Mediterranean", "Early Vicissitudes.-productions.-sanitary Climate", "The Winter Of Our Content", "Health And Longevity", "Is Residence Here Agreeable?", "The Winter On The Coast", "The General Outlook.-land And...
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This 1897 literary history brings to life the world of the Elizabethan people: their habits, clothes, food, work, and play. Includes vivid descriptions of dining, hawking, and family life-and, of course, what people knew and thought about Shakespeare, his works, and the actors in his plays. This volume gives readers an entirely different perspective of Shakespeare.
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First published in 1901, this vintage book contains a detailed biography of Washington Irving written by American writer Charles Dudley Warner. Exploring the life and mind of one of America's great writers, "Washington Irving" is highly recommend for those with an interest in American literary history.
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First published in 1904, this volume contains all the essays of American writer Charles Dudley Warner. contents include: "As We Were Saying," "Rose And Chrysanthemum," "The Red Bonnet," "The Loss In Civilization," "Social Screaming," "Does Refinement Kill Individuality?," "The Directoire Gown," "The Mystery Of The Sex," "The Clothes Of Fiction," "The Broad A," "Chewing Gum," etc. This book is highly recommended for those with an interest in American...
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"As We Were Saying" is a 1891 essay by American writer Charles Dudley Warner. Charles Dudley Warner (September 12, 1829 – October 20, 1900) was an American novelist and essayist. He was a close friend of Mark Twain, and co-authored "The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today" with him. Other notable works by this author include: "Baddeck, And That Sort of Thing" (1874), "In the Levant" (1876), and "On Horseback, in the Southern States" (1888).
10) Being a Boy
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"Being A Boy" is Charles Dudley Warner's profound and entertaining memoir of his childhood spent growing up on a Massachusetts farm. Contents include: "Being a Boy", "The Boy as a Farmer", "The Delights of Farming", "No Farming Without a Boy", "The Boy's Sunday", "The Grindstone of Life", "Fiction and Sentiment", "The Coming of Thanksgiving", "The Season of Pumpkin-pie", "First Experience of the World", "Home Inventions", "The Lonely Farmhouse", etc....
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It began as a dinner-party contest: when Mark Twain and his neighbor Charles Dudley Warner criticized the deplorable quality of their wives' reading material, the two writers were challenged to come up with something more intriguing. Thus, for the only time in his career, Twain collaborated on a novel with another author. The title of their rollicking 1873 tale became synonymous with the rampant post—Civil War corruption of Washington, D.C., where...
13) The gilded age
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"The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today" is the collaborative work of Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirized the era of political greed and corruption that followed the American Civil War. This period is often referred to as "The Gilded Age" because of this book. The corruption and greed that was typical of the era is exemplified through two fictional narratives; one of the Hawkins family, a poor family from Tennessee who try to get the government...
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[2001]
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First published in 1873, The Gilded Age is both a biting satire and a revealing portrait of post-Civil War America-an age of corruption when crooked land speculators, ruthless bankers, and dishonest politicians voraciously took advantage of the nation's peacetime optimism. With his characteristic wit and perception, Mark Twain and his collaborator, Charles Dudley Warner, attack the greed, lust, and naivete of their own time in a work which endures...
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