Boy Life - Stories and Readings Selected From The Works of William Dean Howells

Boy Life - Stories and Readings Selected From The Works of William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells, American realist author and literary critic (1837-1920)


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Table of Contents

- About This Book

- Introduction

- Part I-adventures In A Boy's Town- Running Off With A Circus

- The Circus Magician

- Jim Leonard's Hair-breadth Escape

- Part Ii-life In A Boy's Town-the Town

- Earliest Memories

- Home Life

- The River

- Swimming

- Skating

- Manners And Customs

- Girls

- Mothers

- A Brother

- A Friend

- Part Iii-games And Pastimes-marbles

- Races

- A Mean Trick

- Tops

- Kites

- The Butler Guards

- Pets

- Indians

- Guns

- Nutting

- The Fire-engines

- Part Iv-glimpses Of The Larger World-the Travelling Circus

- Passing Shows

- The Theatre Comes To Town

- The World Opened By Books

- Part V-the Last Of A Boy's Town-the Last Of A Boy's Town