The complete online text of The Story of a Bad Boy by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, so closely identified with the Boston Brahmin-literati of the later nineteenth century, was Boston plated rather than the genuine article, to paraphrase his self-description, quoted in the official biography by Ferris Greenslet (19...

Thomas Bailey Aldrich is remembered only for his one children's novel, The Story of a Bad Boy (1869). He was, however, one of the most respected literary men of his time. Ranked with William Dean Howells and Mark Twain as a novelist and with James Russel...

Thomas Bailey Aldrich is of interest today for his contributions to American literature and journalism. As a literary figure he contributed to the development of realism in adolescent fiction; one of his novels introduced a character type that became the...

(COMEDY-DRAMA) A Sweet Films presentation of a Jean Doumanian production. Produced by Doumanian. Executive producer, J.E. Beaucaire. Co-executive producer, Letty Aronson. Co-producer, Aronson. Directed, written by Tom Donaghy. Camera (color), Garrett Fisher; editor, Barbara Tulliver; music themes, Angelo Badalamenti; score, Chris...

From an essay by Lee Martin in the Fall issue of The Georgia Review. Martin's memoir From Our House will be published in June by Dutton. For most of my life I balanced on the thin line between my father's brutality and...