A Woman's Reason - A Novel — William Dean Howells / W.D. Howells

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 and truth to nature. The environment - so important a feature in the methods of the école naturaliste - is perfect: the whole story is redolent of Boston, and the account of the sale by auction of Mr. Harkness's house which the reader is at first inclined to regard as an interpolated incident, but which is afterwards found to be a step in the logical development of events, is one of the best bits of humorous description of American life that have ever been written.-The Fortnightly Review, Vol. 40 [1883]