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The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner

Charles Dudley Warner · Public domain text

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Author
Charles Dudley Warner (1829–1900)
Language
English
Subjects
Literature › Collections, American literature › 19th century
Length
1,020,914 words · about 71 h 30 min
Sections
95 reader sections · Table of contents
Contents (95)
  1. Opening about 2 min
  2. Preface about 3 min
  3. BADDECK AND THAT SORT OF THING about 4 h 41 min
  4. BACKLOG STUDIES about 3 h 39 min
  5. IN THE WILDERNESS under 1 min
  6. HOW I KILLED A BEAR about 2 h 28 min
  7. HOW SPRING CAME IN NEW ENGLAND about 21 min
  8. Preface about 4 min
  9. CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH about 5 h 15 min
  10. THE STORY OF POCAHONTAS about 59 min
  11. SAUNTERINGS about 6 h 5 min
  12. BEING A BOY about 2 h 26 min
  13. ON HORSEBACK about 2 h 20 min
  14. ROSE AND CHRYSANTHEMUM about 5 min
  15. THE RED BONNET about 5 min
  16. THE LOSS IN CIVILIZATION about 4 min
  17. SOCIAL SCREAMING about 6 min
  18. DOES REFINEMENT KILL INDIVIDUALITY? about 4 min
  19. THE DIRECTOIRE GOWN about 4 min
  20. THE MYSTERY OF THE SEX about 4 min
  21. THE CLOTHES OF FICTION about 5 min
  22. THE BROAD A about 4 min
  23. CHEWING GUM about 5 min
  24. WOMEN IN CONGRESS about 4 min
  25. SHALL WOMEN PROPOSE? about 5 min
  26. FROCKS AND THE STAGE about 5 min
  27. ALTRUISM about 4 min
  28. SOCIAL CLEARING-HOUSE about 5 min
  29. DINNER-TABLE TALK about 5 min
  30. NATURALIZATION about 4 min
  31. ART OF GOVERNING about 5 min
  32. LOVE OF DISPLAY about 4 min
  33. VALUE OF THE COMMONPLACE about 4 min
  34. THE BURDEN OF CHRISTMAS about 4 min
  35. THE RESPONSIBILITY OF WRITERS about 5 min
  36. THE CAP AND GOWN about 5 min
  37. A TENDENCY OF THE AGE about 5 min
  38. A LOCOED NOVELIST about 5 min
  39. OUR PRESIDENT about 5 min
  40. THE NEWSPAPER-MADE MAN about 5 min
  41. INTERESTING GIRLS about 4 min
  42. GIVE THE MEN A CHANCE about 4 min
  43. THE ADVENT OF CANDOR about 5 min
  44. THE AMERICAN MAN about 3 min
  45. THE ELECTRIC WAY about 5 min
  46. CAN A HUSBAND OPEN HIS WIFE'S LETTERS? about 4 min
  47. A LEISURE CLASS about 4 min
  48. WEATHER AND CHARACTER about 4 min
  49. BORN WITH AN "EGO" about 5 min
  50. JUVENTUS MUNDI about 4 min
  51. A BEAUTIFUL OLD AGE about 5 min
  52. THE ATTRACTION OF THE REPULSIVE about 5 min
  53. GIVING AS A LUXURY about 5 min
  54. CLIMATE AND HAPPINESS about 6 min
  55. THE NEW FEMININE RESERVE about 5 min
  56. REPOSE IN ACTIVITY about 5 min
  57. WOMEN--IDEAL AND REAL about 4 min
  58. THE ART OF IDLENESS about 5 min
  59. IS THERE ANY CONVERSATION about 4 min
  60. THE TALL GIRL about 5 min
  61. THE DEADLY DIARY about 4 min
  62. THE WHISTLING GIRL about 4 min
  63. BORN OLD AND RICH about 5 min
  64. THE "OLD SOLDIER" about 5 min
  65. THE ISLAND OF BIMINI about 6 min
  66. JUNE about 2 min
  67. NINE SHORT ESSAYS under 1 min
  68. A NIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF THE TUILERIES about 19 min
  69. TRUTHFULNESS about 9 min
  70. THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS about 8 min
  71. LITERATURE AND THE STAGE about 3 min
  72. THE LIFE-SAVING AND LIFE PROLONGING ART about 10 min
  73. "H.H." IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA about 7 min
  74. SIMPLICITY about 10 min
  75. THE ENGLISH VOLUNTEERS DURING THE LATE INVASION about 26 min
  76. Introduction about 7 min
  77. FASHIONS IN LITERATURE about 23 min
  78. THE AMERICAN NEWSPAPER about 35 min
  79. CERTAIN DIVERSITIES OF AMERICAN LIFE about 46 min
  80. SOME CAUSES OF THE PREVAILING DISCONTENT about 26 min
  81. THE EDUCATION OF THE NEGRO about 46 min
  82. LITERARY COPYRIGHT about 1 h 3 min
  83. THE RELATION OF LITERATURE TO LIFE about 34 min
  84. "EQUALITY" about 35 min
  85. WHAT IS YOUR CULTURE TO ME? about 28 min
  86. MODERN FICTION about 29 min
  87. THOUGHTS SUGGESTED BY MR. FROUDE'S "PROGRESS" about 32 min
  88. ENGLAND about 29 min
  89. THE NOVEL AND THE COMMON SCHOOL about 29 min
  90. THE PEOPLE FOR WHOM SHAKESPEARE WROTE about 1 h 55 min
  91. A LITTLE JOURNEY IN THE WORLD about 6 h 20 min
  92. THE GOLDEN HOUSE about 5 h 30 min
  93. THAT FORTUNE about 6 h 2 min
  94. THEIR PILGRIMAGE about 5 h 52 min
  95. WASHINGTON IRVING about 4 h 13 min

The opening of Preface

TO JOSEPH H. TWICHELL

It would be unfair to hold you responsible for these light sketches of a summer trip, which are now gathered into this little volume in response to the usual demand in such cases; yet you cannot escape altogether. For it was you who first taught me to say the name Baddeck; it was you who showed me its position on the map, and a seductive letter from a home missionary on Cape Breton Island, in relation to the abundance of trout and salmon in his field of labor. That missionary, you may remember, we never found, nor did we see his tackle; but I have no reason to believe that he does not enjoy good fishing in the right season. You understand the duties of a home missionary much better than I do, and you know whether he would be likely to let a couple of strangers into the best part of his preserve.

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