The complete online text of The Lost Word, Christmas stories by Henry van Dyke.

From the opening pages of his first novel, Henry Van Dyke has shown that he is a masterful novelist, an "original" artist with his own voice, his own style, his "language couched in wit and eloquence." One critic has stated that Van Dyke "has refined the...

Writer, minister, critic, professor, outdoorsman--Henry Van Dyke was a man of multiple talents and great energy. As a literary critic he supported the basic tenets of the Genteel Tradition well into the twentieth century, castigating the modern trend tow...

John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) is a once much-esteemed novelist fallen for some time out of fashion. Most probably those born in or since the '60s will have no awareness either of the man or his highly original, powerful works. Now Powys' 1932 "A...

Thirty-five years hardly counts as the distant past. In publishing, however, 3 1/2 decades ago represents something close to ancient. William Humphrey's 1965 novel, "The Ordways," was his second in a career that has included novels and short fiction ("September Song," his most recent...