El Ombú. E-book. Formato PDF William Henry Hudson   -  Ionlineshopping.Com, 2019  - 

The two short stories included in this volume are reprints:—the "Story of a Piebald Horse" from a book of travel and adventure in South America, long out of print; the other, "Niño Diablo," is taken, by permission, from Macmillan's Magazine. The two long stories now appear for the first time, excepting only the incidents of the English invasion told in "El Ombú," and the Appendix to the same story, which formed part of an article describing the game of El Pato in the Badminton Magazine. Contents El Ombú -- Story of a piebald horse -- Niño Diablo -- Marta Riquelme -- Appendix to El Ombú.  

Sir Walter Scott. E-book. Formato PDF William Henry Hudson   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

It has been my aim in this volume to give a straightforward and fairly comprehensive account of the life, character, and writings of Scott; and if I have found the task a difficult one, it has hardly, I think, been more difficult than I expected when I began. Scott is altogether too big a subject to be put very successfully into a small book; his picturesque personality, the range and volume of his work, his varied relations with the men and movements of his time, and the countless delightful stories which cluster about his name, combine to fill the biographer who has but limited space at disposal with feelings akin to despair. One is so constantly tempted to enlarge, to comment, to find place for this or that familiar incident or anecdote, that the writing of almost every page represents the solution of that always taxing problem - the problem of deciding what one can best afford to leave out.

A Crystal Age. E-book. Formato PDF William Henry Hudson   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

In'like manner, in going through this book of mine after so many years I am amused at the way it is colored by the little cults and crazes, and modes of thought of the 'eighties of the last century. They were so important then, and now, if remembered at all, they appear so trivial! It pleases me to be diverted in this way at A Crystal Age — to find, in fact, that I have not stood still while the world has been moving. This criticism refers to the case, the habit, of the book rather than to its spirit, since when we write we do, as the red man thought, impart something of our souls to the paper, and it is probable that if I were to write a new dream of the future it would, though in some respects very different from this, still be a dream and picture of the human race in its forest period.