Second book of tales

Description

Eugene Field (1850-1895) wrote a daily newspaper column in Chicago and became, almost by accident, one of the most widely read American writers of his century — the man behind Little Boy Blue and Wynken, Blynken and Nod, verses that a great many people could recite without knowing whose they were.The tales here are the other Field: dialect sketches, ghost stories, bookish jokes, a werewolf, and the sentimental pieces his readers demanded and he supplied with a certain visible irony. He died at forty-five, and his widow gathered this second volume the following year. Read now, it is a good deal stranger and funnier than his reputation as a children’s poet suggests.This is a faithful print-on-demand facsimile of the 1896 New York edition, reproduced in full from a library copy. The historical text is reproduced without modification; only the format, margins and legibility have been reset for modern printing.