Project Gutenberg 2010-07-13 Public domain in the USA. 158 Various Verschillende Various, Various My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Internet Archive.) "My First Book" by Various is a collection of autobiographical essays written in the late 19th century. The authors included in this anthology, such as Rudyard Kipling, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Jerome K. Jerome, share their experiences and reflections on the challenges and triumphs of their early writing careers. This compilation provides insights into the literary world of the time and highlights the perseverance required to succeed in literature. At the start of this collection, the reader is introduced to Jerome K. Jerome’s charming conversation with a young boy named Valentine in a park. Their discussion delves into Valentine’s aspirations to become an author, revealing his innocent love for storytelling and his sense of responsibility towards his mother. As they exchange their thoughts on literature, Valentine’s naive yet profound understanding of the calling serves to evoke nostalgia in Jerome, prompting him to reflect on the challenges faced by writers, the nature of good storytelling, and the importance of pursuing one’s passions amidst the trials experienced along the way. (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/33148/33148-h/images/ill_cover_sml.jpg en Authors, English -- Biography Authorship PN Text Browsing: Biographies Browsing: Language & Communication Browsing: Literature 570421 570419 2024-09-14T06:02:59.255463 2023-09-14T10:47:57.748164 text/html text/html 549879 2010-07-13T08:56:34 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 23519690 2010-07-13T08:57:04 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 24020548 2024-09-14T06:03:49.141749 application/epub+zip 23947565 2024-09-14T06:03:14.000500 application/epub+zip 272032 2024-09-14T06:03:00.670474 application/epub+zip 29101484 2024-09-14T06:04:07.434660 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 28983757 2024-09-14T06:03:30.565345 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 365284 2022-09-15T08:12:45.951943 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 461746 461547 2024-09-14T06:02:56.797523 2023-09-14T10:47:55.805174 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 462053 2010-07-13T08:56:16 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 183133 2010-07-13T08:57:00 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 462073 2010-07-13T08:56:02 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 183050 2010-07-13T08:57:00 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20612 2024-09-14T06:04:07.872612 application/rdf+xml 8936 2024-09-14T06:03:00.806520 image/jpeg 1828 2024-09-14T06:03:00.738483 image/jpeg 23702106 2024-09-14T06:03:00.210459 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog