Charles Dudley Warner

Captain John Smith, 1579-1631 - Sometime governor of Virginia, and admiral of New England. A study of his life and writings. Vol.1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1881. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

A Roundabout Journey - (Edition 4) is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1884. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

My Summer in a Garden - Vol. 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1898. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

MY DEAR MR. FIELDS, -I did promise to write an Introduction to these charming papers but an Introduction, -what is it?-a sort of pilaster, put upon the face of a building for looks' sake, and usually flat, -very flat. Sometimes it may be called a caryatid, which is, as I understand it, a cruel device of architecture, representing a man or a woman, obliged to hold up upon his or her head or shoulders a structure which they did not build, and which could stand just as well without as with them. But an Introduction is more apt to be a pillar, such as one may see in Baalbec, standing up in the air all alone, with nothing on it, and with nothing for it to do. But an Introductory Letter is different. There is in that no formality, no assumption of function, no awkward propriety or dignity to be sustained. A letter at the opening of a book may be only a footpath, leading the curious to a favorable point of observation, and then leaving them to wander as they will. Sluggards have been sent to the ant for wisdom; but writers might better be sent to the spider, not because he works all night, and watches all day, but because he works unconsciously. He dare not even bring his work before his own eyes, but keeps it behind him, as if too much knowledge of what one is doing would spoil the delicacy and modesty of one's work

In the early 1870s, Mark Twain, along with his friend and neighbor Charles Dudley Warner -- who had chided their wives for the low quality novels they were reading -- were challenged by them to write something better. Twain, who would eventually attain to worldwide fame for his novels "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" had never before written a novel; the collaboration here exposed political corruption of the day and gave the era an enduring name, that of this novel: The Gilded Age. The Gilded Age examines the greed and corruption rampant in America at that time, from wild speculations by frontier megalomaniacs to shady intrigues by Washington politicians, even including the murder of a bigamist by a sexy lobbyist whom he had earlier led astray and betrayed, and relates how many women of the time wanted to change genders. Almost twenty years later, Twain (by himself, this time) wrote a sequel, "The American Claimant" which is possibly his most wildly inventive and wacky novel of all, and incorporates one-armed cowboys, mad scientists, and armies of zombies mobilized to provide cheap labor to speculators. These two novels are combined here in one volume.