Being a Boy

&quote;Being A Boy&quote; is Charles Dudley Warner's profound and entertaining memoir of his childhood spent growing up on a Massachusetts farm. Contents include: &quote;Being a Boy&quote;, &quote;The Boy as a Farmer&quote;, &quote;The Delights of Farming&quote;, &quote;No Farming Without a Boy&quote;, &quote;The Boy's Sunday&quote;, &quote;The Grindstone of Life&quote;, &quote;Fiction and Sentiment&quote;, &quote;The Coming of Thanksgiving&quote;, &quote;The Season of Pumpkin-pie&quote;, &quote;First Experience of the World&quote;, &quote;Home Inventions&quote;, &quote;The Lonely Farmhouse&quote;, 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 &quote;The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today&quote; with him. Other notable works by this author include: &quote;Baddeck, And That Sort of Thing&quote; (1874), &quote;In the Levant&quote; (1876), and &quote;On Horseback, in the Southern States&quote; (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.