Being A Boy
Charles Dudley Warner
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Description
Warner calls being a boy one of the best things in the world. It needs no experience, though it takes some practice to be a good one. Its fault is brevity: just as a boy grows used to the state, he must become something else, with far more work and not half so much fun. Yet every boy longs to be a man and chafes at the limits placed on him.
The chapters that follow remember that restless age in detail. Yoking up teams, roaming fields, and dodging chores fill the pages. The book charms because Warner writes as one who has kept the boy's view intact: work is real, play is serious, and growing up looks both welcome and unfair at once.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Charles Dudley Warner |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 181 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |