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(0)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...
4) 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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"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).