William Dean Howells
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William Dean Howells frequently drew on his Midwestern childhood for his fiction. Based on an incident in Ohio that had always fascinated him, The Leatherwood God tells the intriguing tale of how a charlatan named Joseph Dylks, claiming to be a messenger of God (or even God himself), exploited the pious townspeople, split their devout community in two, and then disappeared.
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Standard Household-Effect Company (from Literature and Life)" by William Dean Howells. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves...
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A naïve Massachusetts schoolteacher sails to Italy, where she is harassed by a drunk and meets a Boston socialite who will become her husband. The Lady of the Aroostook explores a favorite theme of Howells-conflicting social habits, in this case those of the American village and those of the American city.
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From his perch as editor of the Atlantic Monthly, author, editor, and literary critic William Dean Howells discussed his theories of realism in literature in his column, "The Editor's Study." Highly influential, this collection of Howells's essays and ideas is an invaluable resource for any reader or student with a passion for literature.
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William Dean Howells spent scarcely a year in the classroom, but his father's newspaper offices afforded an invaluable education. In this charming memoir, Howells recalls, "I could set type very well, and at ten years and onward till journalism became my university, the printing office was mainly my school."
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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. Instead, his naïveté leaves him an easy mark, and he is soon destitute. A minister, Sewell, is forced to consider his own complicity in Barker's fate . . . and by extension that of all his less-fortunate fellows.
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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 and buddy Jim, and all their attempts to run away, and why they always give up.
48) Annie Kilburn
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Annie Kilburn, a New Englander, desperately tries to save her hometown from the negative effects of industrialization and eventually realizes that what they truly need is justice. Annie Kilburn reflects Howells's deepening disillusionment with American society.
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This 1907 utopian romance is the final volume in the trilogy that includes A Traveler from Alturia (1894) and Letters of an Alturian Traveler (1904). The novel takes the form of letters from the protagonist, Aristides Homos, to his friend Cyril. In New York City, Homos falls in love with Evelith Strange, a socialite whose lifestyle conflicts with her Christian values-values that Homos could help her regain back in utopian Alturia, if she accepts his...
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Minister's Charge; Or, The Apprenticeship of Lemuel Barker" by William Dean Howells. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves...
52) Ragged Lady
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Howells spent several years in Italy, including a stint as United States consul in Venice. He used Italy as the backdrop in several works, including his novel Ragged Lady, the story of a young woman from New England who travels to Venice to meet her future husband.
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The Sleeping-Car, a farce by William Dean Howells.
The Sleeping Car is a farce play in three parts by William Dean Howells, first published in the United States in 1883. This play takes place entirely within a 24-hour period on a railway sleeping car, and revolves around a woman's late night confusion regarding the premature appearance of her husband and brother.
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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 entertaining and heartfelt reminiscence of that year.
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An ingenious concept conceived by William Dean Howells, Whole Family is a novel written by twelve different writers, including Henry James, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, and Henry Van Dyke. Each writer tackles a different family member, with Howells's portrait of the family patriarch, who has doubts about his daughter's engagement, setting the story in motion.
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