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    March 2011
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    October 2022
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  • Imagine meeting a literary legend. In this whimsical fantasy, William Dean Howells does just that. Here, Howells pretends to meet Shakespeare at the Shakespeare Festival. They are joined by Sir Francis Bacon, leading to jokes about the Bacon-Shakespe...




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    From his place on the floor of the Hemenway Gymnasium Mr. Elbridge G. Mavering looked on at the Class Day gaiety with the advantage which his stature, gave him over most people there. Hundreds of these were pretty girls, in a great variety of charmin...



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    William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, wh...



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    Near the verge of a bold promontory stands the hotel, and looks southeastward over a sweep of sea unbroken to the horizon. Behind it stretches the vast forest, which after two hundred years has resumed the sterile coast wrested from it by the first P...



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    MRS. Amy Somers, in a lightly floating tea-gown of singularly becoming texture and color, employs the last moments of expectance before the arrival of her guests in marching up and down in front of the mirror which fills the space between the long wi...






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    A prolific novelist, playwright, and literary critic, Howells was an ardent proponent of realism in fiction. He also wrote juvenile fiction, including this book, one of his more popular novels. It tells the story of Pony Baker, and his cousin Frank a...



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    This 1910 collection of satiric essays on editors, the publishing industry, music, and culture includes “Sclerosis of the Tastes,” “Intimations of Italian Opera,” “The Superiority of Our Inferiors,” “Unimportance of Women in Republics,...




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    “You have done nothing more true and complete,” wrote Henry James about William Dean Howells’s novel The Kentons. Here, Howells follows a Midwestern family as they travel first to New York and then to Holland -- in order to take the daughter, E...



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    The author thinks it well to apprise the reader that the historical outline of this story is largely taken from the admirable narrative of Judge Taneyhill in the Ohio Valley Series, Robert Clarke Co., Cincinnati. The details are often invented, and t...



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    "William Howells was an American realist author and literary critic. In 1904 he was one of the first seven members chosen for the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Howells wrote plays, criticism, and essays about contemporary literary figures suc...



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    Three months were passed in the village of Villeneuve in the canton of Vaud, where a comfortable pension, vineyards galore, a gothic chapel, the placid lake, the snow-covered Alps, an occasional chateau (to let, furnished, for $500 a year) lent charm...



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    Whoever carries a mental kodak with him (as I suspect I was in the habit of doing long before I knew it) must be aware of the uncertain value of the different exposures. This can be determined only by the process of developing, which requires a dark ...



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    In this amazingly captivating work, Howells has recorded his stay in New England and the literary developments during that time. His close acquaintance with the literary giants of his time has enabled him to sketch them before the readers in a befitt...



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    Howells was proud of his Ohio roots, and often drew from his experiences growing up there for his popular collections of reminiscences. His family moved from town to town, and lived for a year at a utopian commune in Eureka Mills, which Howells later...



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    William Dean Howells was an American realist author, literary critic, and playwright. Nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters", he was particularly known for his tenure as editor of the Atlantic Monthly as well as his own prolific writings, including...



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    A fantastic collection of ten novelettes from the early 20th century....



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    "The exoneration fo the individual and the attribution of his misdeeds to the social order, an order which individual effort seems powerless to better, is the underlying purpose of The Quality of Mercy."--William Dean Howells: a critical study by Del...



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    Shakespeare has been accused of many sins because he analyzed sin with such penetrating insight and uncovered its tragedy with such masterly power. He has been accused also of being a lawyer, a physician, a musician; he has been charged with being a ...



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    Should a son who’s delusional about his dead father be told the truth -- that in fact, his father was a scoundrel who tyrannized his wife? That’s the ethical dilemma in this tale by author William Dean Howells, dealing with questions of loyalty, ...



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    If I spoke with Altrurian breadth of the way New-Yorkers live, my dear Cyril, I should begin by saying that the New-Yorkers did not live at all. But outside of our happy country one learns to distinguish, and to allow that there are several degrees o...



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    A unique novel told in chapters, each one by a different author. The unusual project was conceived by William Dean Howells, an American realist author and literary critic. Howells had hoped Mark Twain would be one of the authors, but Twain did not pa...



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    470 pages. Complete and unabridged!In A Woman's Reason, Howells has given us a study of a few eventful years of a woman's life, characterized by his unequalled knowledge of the mysterious working of woman's mind and heart, and told with great power a...



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    After the death of Judge Kilburn his daughter came back to America. They had been eleven winters in Rome, always meaning to return, but staying on from year to year, as people do who have nothing definite to call them home. Toward the last Miss Kilbu...



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    This 1907 volume contains seven short stories characterized by the author as "romances":  "A Sleep and a Forgetting," "The Eidolons of Brooks Alford," "A Memory that Worked Overtime," "A Case of Metaphantasmia," "Editha," "Baybridge's Offer," an...



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    A Lady, entering the florist's with her muff to her face, and fluttering gayly up to the counter, where the florist stands folding a mass of loose flowers in a roll of cotton batting: "Good-morning, Mr. Eichenlaub Ah, put plenty of cotton round the ...



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    If one has money enough, there seems no reason why one should not go and buy such a horse as he wants. This is the commonly accepted theory, on which the whole commerce in horses is founded, and on which my friend proceeded....



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    The Shelf2Life Literature and Fiction Collection is a unique set of short stories, poems and novels from the late 19th to early 20th centuries. From tales of love, life and heartbreaking loss to humorous stories of ghost encounters, these volumes cap...



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    " ...]the summer colony not only as the landlord of the rented cottages, and the keeper of the hotels and boarding-houses, but as livery-stableman, grocer, butcher, marketman, apothecary, and doctor; there is not one foreign accent in any of these ca...



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    William Howells was an American realist author and literary critic. In 1904 he was one of the first seven members chosen for the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Howells wrote plays, criticism, and essays about contemporary literary figures such...



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    According to Wikipedia: William Dean Howells (March 1, 1837 - May 11, 1920) was an American realist author and literary critic... In 1858, he began to work at the Ohio State Journal where he wrote poetry, short stories, and also translated pieces fro...



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    Travelogues Collection offers readers a unique glimpse into the diverse landscape, culture and wildlife of the world from the perspective of late 19th and early 20th century esteemed travelers. From the exotic islands of Fiji to the lush jungles of A...



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    The book, which takes place in late 19th Century New York, tells the story of the dispute between a self-made millionaire and a social revolutionary, with a third man attempting to act as mediator....



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    The events of Mr. James's life -- as we agree to understand events -- may be told in a very few words. His race is Irish on his father's side and Scotch on his mother's, to which mingled strains the generalizer may attribute, if he likes, that union ...



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    One of the most charming and memorable romantic comedies in American literature, William Dean Howells's Indian Summer tells of a season in the life of Theodore Colville. Colville, just turned forty, has spent years as a successful midwestern newspape...



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    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.The Kentons were not rich, but they were certainly richer than the average in the pleasant county town of the Middle West, where they had spent nearly their whole married life. As their circumstances had gr...



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    " ...]place with a lively if a somewhat flaccid semblance of human presence. The worst was that, when some one went, we lost a friend, and when some one came we only won a stranger. Among the first to go were the kindly English folk whose acquaintanc...



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    Among my fellow-passengers on the train from New York to Boston, when I went to begin my work there in 1866, as the assistant editor of the Atlantic Monthly, was the late Samuel Bowles, of the Springfield Republican, who created in a subordinate city...



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    This 1886 novel introduces Howells's concept -- derived from Tolstoy -- of moral complicity, which would play a large part in his fiction from this point on.  A poor farmer, Lemuel Barker, comes to Boston with dreams of becoming a poet.  In...



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    "A Modern Instance," the first full-scale study of infidelity and divorce in American fiction...



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    In this book of criticism, Howells has discussed different Italian poets. He has reflected on the themes of their poetry and concluded that through the ages, Italian poetry has focused on themes of patriotism and love of the land. He has discussed pa...



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    Leopold is delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of ou...



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    William Dean Howells, author of The Rise of Silas Lapham, lived in a log cabin for a year when he was a young boy before he and his family moved to Columbus, Ohio. My Year In a Log Cabin, written in the realist style Howells is known for, is an enter...



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    It is consoling as often as dismaying to find in what seems a cataclysmal tide of a certain direction a strong drift to the opposite quarter. It is so divinable, if not so perceptible, that its presence may usually be recognized as a beginning of the...



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    The short stories of Ohio-born William Dean Howells (1837-1920), the leading figure in American realism, have been largely unknown to the reading public, at least partly because of their general unavailability and because of the difficulties of ident...



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    Why should the proud stomach of American travel, much tossed in the transatlantic voyage, so instantly have itself carried from Liverpool to any point where trains will convey it? Liverpool is most worthy to be seen and known, and no one who looks up...



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    Unless she was out of her mind there was no way of accounting for her behavior...Nowhere in the prodigious output of William Dean Howells is there an example more poignant of his heart-felt dedication to the realist movement than this achingly suspen...



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    SCENE: One side of a sleeping-car on the Boston and Albany Road. The curtains are drawn before most of the berths; from the hooks and rods hang hats, bonnets, bags, bandboxes, umbrellas, and other travelling gear; on the floor are boots of both sexes...



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    One night at the little theatre in Padua, the ticket-seller gave us the stage-box (of which he made a great merit), and so we saw the play and the byplay. The prompter, as noted from our point of view, bore a chief part in the drama (as indeed the pr...



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    The four novels collected in this Library of America volume are among the classic works from the immensely productive career of America’s most influential man of letters at the turn of the twentieth century. William Dean Howells was a champion of F...



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    William Dean Howells was the foremost champion of realism in late-nineteenth-century American fiction. The three novels in this Library of America volume perceptively and often satirically examine the conflict between Christian ideals and commercial ...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

William Dean Howells / W.D. Howells has published 121 books.

William Dean Howells / W.D. Howells does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The House by the Medlar Tree, was published in October 2022.

The first book by William Dean Howells / W.D. Howells, The Seen and Unseen at Stratford-on-Avon, was published in March 2011.

No. William Dean Howells / W.D. Howells does not write books in series.