Memory & the Past

Literature about remembering — childhood recovered, time recaptured, and the strange machinery by which the past stays alive in us.

How the mind keeps what is gone

In this collection

• The Leavenworth Case
• The Wind of Spring
• The German Fleet
• Brooksmith
• Your Riches Taught me Poverty
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• Little Orphant Annie
• The Victory of Life
• Bedridden and the Winter Offensive
• The Legacy
• The Maid of Orleans
• To an Autograph-Hunter
• The Last Dream
• Quando 'L Sol Bagna in Mur L' Aurato Carro
• Spring
• Tom Swift and His Chest of Secrets
• At Day-Close in November
• The Christmas of 1888
• The Five Insides
• The Humming-Top
• When I was a Boy
• The Amouretta Landscape
• The Marquis Goes Donkey-Riding
• The Young Lady in Blue
• Auld Lang Syne
• Pleasant it was, when Woods were Green
• To the River Charles
• The Belfry of Bruges
• A Gleam of Sunshine
• Nuremberg
• The Bridge
• To an Old Danish Song-Book
• The Old Clock on the Stairs
• The Fire of Drift-Wood
• Haunted Houses
• Oliver Basselin
• My Lost Youth
• The Golden Mile-Stone
• Palingenesis
• The Bridge of Cloud
• The Haunted Chamber
• The Meeting
• Changed
• The Two Rivers
• Travels by the Fireside
• Monte Cassino
• Amalfi
• With Favoring Winds, o'Er Sunlit Seas
• From my Arm-Chair
• Memories
• My Books
• Childhood
• Will Ever the Dear Days Come Back again?
• At La Chaudeau
• The Wine of Jurancon
• Echo
• Memory
• A Farm Walk
• That Time is Dead for Ever, Child
• The Past
• Thy Little Footsteps on the Sands
• Fragment: the Sepulchre of Memory
• Time Long Past
• Music, when Soft Voices Die
• To Jane: the Recollection
• The Flower's Name
• By the Fireside
• Memorabilia
• Confessions
• Development
• How Jappe Fought do Escobar
• The Glamour-Land

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