The Complete Essays of Charles Dudley Warner

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The Complete Essays of Charles Dudley Warner brings together pieces by Charles Dudley Warner, and its contents list includes titles such as Rose and Chrysanthemum, The Loss in Civilization, Social Screaming and Can a Husband Open His Wife's Letters? One piece says that a novelist can control the weather, and that perpetual drizzle and grayness and inclemency are tedious to the reader. The same piece says that it is not the office of fiction to intensify and rub in the unavoidable evils of life.

Another piece describes a man who hires workmen at certain wages and makes contracts for the delivery of goods, and a workman settled down to work in the mill. A piece on roads says that in 1640 Queen Henrietta spent four weary days on the road from Dover to London, the best in England.