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Being a Boy
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Books Warner, or the boy he is writing about, mentions reading as a boy are Arabian Nights, Crusoe, Swiss Family Robinson and the Almanac. Today’s students have graduated from these and would possibly, used to video games and modern, over-rated, endless series, find them dull.
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Charles Dudley Warner
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Charles Dudley Warner was an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Warner was born of Puritan descent in Plainfiel...
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