Being a Boy

"e;Being A Boy"e; is Charles Dudley Warner's profound and entertaining memoir of his childhood spent growing up on a Massachusetts farm. Contents include: "e;Being a Boy"e;, "e;The Boy as a Farmer"e;, "e;The Delights of Farming"e;, "e;No Farming Without a Boy"e;, "e;The Boy's Sunday"e;, "e;The Grindstone of Life"e;, "e;Fiction and Sentiment"e;, "e;The Coming of Thanksgiving"e;, "e;The Season of Pumpkin-pie"e;, "e;First Experience of the World"e;, "e;Home Inventions"e;, "e;The Lonely Farmhouse"e;, etc. 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 "e;The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today"e; with him. Other notable works by this author include: "e;Baddeck, And That Sort of Thing"e; (1874), "e;In the Levant"e; (1876), and "e;On Horseback, in the Southern States"e; (1888). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.