'A Childhood Humor Classic by the author Charles Dudley Warner. Being a Boy by American author Charles Dudley Warner is a classic book of childhood humor first published in 1877. A celebrated childhood humor classic, filled with delightful and amusing stories of the life and adventures of a young farm-boy in Charlemont, Massachusetts. The book portrays the joys and troubles, the fun and work, the discoveries and wonders, that a boy experiences in the countryside.'