William Henry Hudson: 36 books

Author of such masterfully constructed novels as A Crystal Age and Green Mansions, Hudson stepped away from nature writing in 1910 to pen this unique volume. Included are the essays, "Some Ways of Studying Literature," "The Study of Poetry," "The Study of Prose Fiction," "The Study of Drama," "On Personality in Literature," and "The Study of the Short Story," among others.

Días de ocio en la Patagonia narra la estancia feliz de este exquisito autor en tierras patagónicas. En 1871 Hudson se adentra en la provincia de Río Negro donde permanece varios meses. Su viaje se convierte en una excusa para reflexionar sobre la experiencia de la contemplación como vía para...

Published in 1915, this is a collection of four never-before printed essays: "Tom Hood: The Man, the Wit, and the Poet"—an expanded version of a lecture delivered in California—“Henry Carey: The Author of ‘Sally in Our Alley,’” “George Lillo and ‘The London Merchant,’” and "Samuel Richardson: The Father of the English Novel."  

In the essay and especially in poetry the cat has become a favourite subject, but in fiction it must be admitted that he lags considerably behind the dog. The reasons for this apparently arbitrary preference on the part of authors are perfectly easy to explain. The instinctive acts of the dog, who is...

The Argentine Woodpeckers enumerated in the present work are thirteen in number, but several of those are somewhat doubtful species, and others only occur in the extreme northern limits of the Republic. On the whole we may say that the Pici are decidedly deficient in Argentina. Nine families of the...

The title of this little volume was chosen because it seems to indicate a characteristic possessed in common by the otherwise unrelated essays here brought together. They may all be described in a general way as holiday tasks—the results of many hours of quiet but rather aimless browsing among books,...

A detailed account of the historical events that took place in California. Missions that were undertaken in different times have been described in detail. The chronological information imparted in a dramatic style captures the attention of the reader.