The complete online text of Father and Son: a study of two temperaments by Edmund Gosse.

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 was as the first English translator of the plays and po...

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 in the literary world and developed warm, intellectuall...

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. Eliot reviewed Evan Charteris's The Life and Letters o...

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 continued to dream of super adventures. With ideas brewing, he quit his...

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 even tighter _ connecting fathers and sons.At Heaven Hill Distilleries, Craig Beam traces some of...

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 Taub, 28, ran A. Taub Diamond Corp. from April 2006 until earlier this...

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 changed into a form that can easily be passed between humans,...