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The Library of Entertainment: Handbook

Chapter 6: 'TO DRIVE DULL CARE AWAY'
By John Chilton Scammell
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A practical handbook offering readerly introductions to classic authors and the pleasures of reading, combining short essays on literary appreciation with advice on using library resources and selecting works. It surveys decisive literary periods, national characteristics, and divisions of literature, and supplies concise biographical and critical sketches of numerous poets, novelists, dramatists, and essayists. Emphasizing reading as personal enrichment, the volume includes notes on literary criticism, guidance for study, and an index to further reading, all presented in an accessible, instructive tone intended to help readers choose authors, grasp stylistic differences, and enjoy sustained engagement with literature.

'TO DRIVE DULL CARE AWAY'

The brightest and most delightful pages that have ever been written.

Short stories, humor, adventure, and fun.

SHORT STORIES

Aldrich: "Père Antoine's Date Palm."

Balzac: "The Purse."

Barrie: "Lads and Lassies."

Björnson: "The Railroad and the Churchyard."

Boccaccio: "The Story of Constantia," "The Story of Federigo and the Falcon."

Brown: "Rab and his Friends."

Collins: "A Terribly Strange Bed."

Crawford: "The Upper Berth."

Eliot: "Brother Jacob."

Hale: "The Man Without a Country."

Hardy: "The Three Strangers."

Harte: "Tennessee's Partner."

Hawthorne: "The Snow-Image."

Irving: "Rip Van Winkle."

Japanese Literature: "The Forty-Seven Rônins."

Kipling: "The Man Who Would Be King."

Macleod: "The Washer of the Ford."

Maupassant: "The Piece of String."

Meredith: "The Story of Noorna Bin Noorka, the Genie Karaz, and the Princess of Oolb," "The Punishment of Shahpesh, the Persian, on Khipil, the Builder."

Poe: "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Cask of Amontillado."

Sterne: "The Story of Le Fevre."

Stevenson: "A Lodging for the Night."

Tolstoi: "Where Love is, There God is Also."

FAIRY TALES

Andersen: "The Hardy Tin Soldier," "The Ugly Duckling," "The Old Street Lamp."

Apuleius: "The Story of Cupid and Psyche."

Arabian Nights: "Ali Baba and the Forty Robbers," "Abon-Hassan the Wag, or the Sleeper Awakened," "The Story of the Three Apples."

Fouqué: "Undine."

Grimm: "Cinderella," "Hansel and Grethel," "The Two Brothers."

Perrault: "Little Red Riding-Hood," "Blue Beard," "Puss in Boots."

Russian Literature: "The Water King and Vasilissa the Wise."

HUMOR

Barham: "The Knight and the Lady."

Browne: "The Showman's Courtship."

Carroll: "A Mad Tea-Party," "The White Knight," "The Walrus and the Carpenter," "Jabberwocky."

Cowper: "The Diverting History of John Gilpin."

Gilbert: "The Yarn of the Nancy Bell."

Harris: "Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman."

Harte: "Plain Language from Truthful James."

Hood: "Faithless Sally Brown."

Hope: "The House Opposite."

Jerrold: "Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures."

Lamb: "A Dissertation on Roast Pig."

Lowell: "The Courtin'."

Raspe: "Baron Münchhausen."

Sterne: "A Sentimental Journey."

ADVENTURE

Audubon: "Hospitality in the Woods."

Carlyle: "The Fall of the Bastille."

Coleridge: "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."

Froude: "A Cagliostro of the Second Century."

Hay: "Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle."

Hearn: "In the Cave of the Children's Ghosts."

Heine: "Travel-Pictures."

Kinglake: "Eothen."

Mandeville: "Travels."

Melville: "Typee."

Polo: "Travels."

Stevenson: "A Night among the Pines."