PREFACE
At the present hour, when fiction takes forms
so ingenious and so specious, it is perhaps necessary
to say that the following narrative, in all its parts,
and so far as the punctilious attenti...
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Edmund Gosse's present reputation, at least outside the scholarly community, rests on his autobiography, Father and Son (1907). This was not always so. In 1931, three years after Gosse's death, T. S. ...
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Edmund Gosse began his long literary career hoping to make his mark as a poet; but, although a small collection of poems, On Viol and Flute (1873), won the approval of some distinguished critics, it w...
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Edmund William Gosse was one of the key literary and intellectual figures of English life from the latter part of the nineteenth century until his death in 1928. It appears that Gosse knew everybody i...
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When Christiaan Allebest was a boy, he wanted to be Batman because the superhero was an ordinary person who did extraordinary things.Allebest, now 31, grew up to become a technology writer. But he ...
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The small group of men responsible for making Kentucky bourbons think of themselves as a fraternity, where friendships seem as enduring as whiskey recipes. At some distilleries, those bonds are eve...
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Dozens of New York City diamond dealers filed a lawsuit Thursday accusing a father-and-son company of stealing nearly $3.4 million worth of gems entrusted to them.Shalom S. Taub and son Alfred Avi ...
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China has confirmed that a father and son who were sickened with bird flu are the country's first infections within the same family, but said their cases showed no evidence that the virus has chang...
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A father-son team from this Sabine County town broke the state watermelon record three times in one summer, with melons adding up to a total weight of 677 pounds.
The really big buster, at...
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A man wounded his wife and fatally shot his son in a feud over the son's marriage. He then held police at bay for nearly 30 hours before he was found dead inside the home, police and authorities sa...
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A man from Cambodia wounded his wife and fatally shot his son in a feud over the son's marriage. He then held police at bay for nearly 30 hours before he was found dead inside the home, police and ...
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Earlier this week, The Observer reported on newsman godhead Walter Cronkite's $4.275 million sale of a townhouse at 160 East 95th Street.
Walter “Chip” Cronkite III, who lived in the ho...
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Father and Son: a study of two temperaments
Edmund (William) Gosse
Game site packs punch // A father and son team up to launch GameAlmighty, an online adventure with comics-inspired graphics
