Introduction
The determination to found a story or a series of
sketches on the delights, adventures, and misadventures
connected with bibliomania did not come impulsively
to my brother. For man...
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Termed "the first of the columnists," Eugene Field is best known today as the poet of children. However, his poems and stories originally appeared in print in columns written for newspapers in St. Lou...
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Eugene Field was a popular humorist and newspaperman often called the "Poet of Childhood." Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Roswell M. and Frances Reed Field, both of New England ancestry, Field claime...
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Highly regarded by his contemporaries as a poet, journalist, humorist, and raconteur, Eugene Field also built a reputation for himself as a bibliophile--although he did not accumulate a notable collec...
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The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
Eugene Field