Charles Dudley Warner 
Being a Boy [EPUB ebook] 

"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. 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). 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.