The complete online text of Fan : the story of a young girl's life by William Henry Hudson.

W. H. Hudson is remembered almost exclusively for the novel Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest (1904), which became his first substantial financial success after a writing career of more than four decades. Hudson, however, was much more tha...

Born in the Argentine, far from England's countryside and literary life, and only beginning to gain attention in his forties with The Purple Land that England Lost (1885), William Henry Hudson achieved at the last such prominence that the Times described...

It is not easy to categorize W. H. Hudson (as he preferred to be called). He was not primarily a fiction writer, yet his best known book, and perhaps his best book, was a novel, Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest (1904), which has retained...

It's hard to know if alcohol really was the organizing principle of Koren Zailckas's life or if it was simply the organizing principle of "Smashed," her tightly focused memoir. Life, as Koren tells it, from 14 years old on, was a search for the...

LISA EDWARDS wanted to become a model. With her friends' encouragement, the attractive blonde compiled a portfolio of photographs and signed up with a West End agency. She also found a steady boyfriend and they had a baby girl who shared her good looks....