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By: William Dean Howells (1837-1920) | |
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My Mark Twain
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) became fast friends with Mark Twain from the moment in 1869 when Twain strode into the office of The Atlantic Monthly in Boston to thank Howells, then its assistant editor, for his favorable review of Innocents Abroad. When Howells became editor a few years later, The Atlantic Monthly began serializing many of Twain’s works, among them his non-fiction masterpiece, Life on the Mississippi. In My Mark Twain, Howells pens a literary memoir that includes such fascinating scenes as their meetings with former president Ulysses Grant who was then writing the classic autobiography that Twain would underwrite in the largest publishing deal until that time... | |
Five O'Clock Tea
A light-hearted romantic comedy in twelve short scenes, set during a tea party in the home of Mrs. Amy Somers, a widow who is courted by the ingenuous and delightful Mr. Willis Campbell. | |
Indian Summer
In his novel Indian Summer, William Dean Howells presents a mellow but realistic story that has the complete feel of that delightful time of the year, although the plot actually spans several seasons. The Indian summer aspect applies to a sophisticated gentleman, Theodore Colville, who has just entered his middle years as he returns to a scene, Florence, Italy, that played an important part in his early manhood. It was here twenty years earlier that he first fell in love, seemingly successfully until a sudden and harsh rejection... | |
The Rise of Silas Lapham
The Rise of Silas Lapham is the most widely read of W.D. Howells’ novels. An example of literary realism, the story is about a farmer (Silas Lapham) who launches a very successful paint business, and moves his family up the social ladder of Boston. Lapham, however, is not one of the new types of American businessman, the ruthless plutocrat, rather he is the old-fashioned trustworthy Yankee trader, and the story deals with how he fares in the industrial capitalist environment. It is also a novel of manners, telling the story of the courtship of a daughter, and the difficulties the family deals with in attempting to move from one social class to another. | |
A Little Swiss Sojurn
A charming brief account of a two months' autumnal stay on the shores of the Lake of Geneva. Howells, who was there with his family traveling from England to Italy, has a sharp eye not only for scenery and architecture, but for people and customs, both Swiss and foreign. | |
Christmas Every Day and Other Stories Told for Children
Five short delightful stories for children, told in the voice of "the papa" to "the girl" and "the boy." William Dean Howells (March 1, 1837 – May 11, 1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. 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 the Christmas story "Christmas Every Day" and the novel The Rise of Silas Lapham. (Reader’s Note for story 3: A pony engine is a small locomotive for switching cars from one track to another.) | |
Annie Kilburn
After 11 years in Rome, Annie Kilburn returns home to the US after the death of her father. But the home she knew is dramatically changed in many ways. She starts to work with sick children, and finds herself attached to them, and to the minister who helps her, Mr. Peck. | |
Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life) | |
William Dean Howells Works | |
Stories Of Ohio | |
Hazard of New Fortunes
Howell’s novel is set in New York of the late nineteenth century, a city familiar to readers of Edith Wharton and Henry James. Basil March, a businessman from Boston of a literary bent, moves with his family to New York to edit a new journal founded by an acquaintance. Its financial support, however, comes from a Mr. Dryfoos, a Pennsylvania Dutch farmer suddenly become millionaire by the discovery of natural gas on his property, and now living in New York with his family in a style he hopes will befit his new wealth... | |
Literature and Life (Complete) | |
A Modern Instance | |
Shapes that Haunt the Dusk | |
My Literary Passions | |
Roman Holidays, and Others | |
Emile Zola | |
Criticism and Fiction | |
William Dean Howells Literature Essays | |
Quaint Courtships | |
Familiar Spanish Travels | |
The Man of Letters as a Man of Business | |
Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship | |
The Landlord at Lion's Head | |
Quotes and Images From The Works of William Dean Howells | |
Ragged Lady | |
Buying a Horse | |
Between the Dark and the Daylight | |
The Daughter of the Storage And Other Things in Prose and Verse | |
Dr. Breen's Practice | |
A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories | |
Seven English Cities | |
The Quality of Mercy | |
Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions | |
A Foregone Conclusion | |
The Elevator | |
The Lady of the Aroostook | |
Henry James, Jr. | |
The Sleeping-Car, a farce | |
Their Silver Wedding Journey | |
Venetian Life | |
The Albany Depot : a Farce | |
A Chance Acquaintance | |
Southern Lights and Shadows | |
April Hopes | |
Spanish Prisoners of War (from Literature and Life) | |
American Literary Centers (from Literature and Life) | |
A Belated Guest (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) | |
My First Visit to New England (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) | |
Coast of Bohemia
William Dean Howells is at his iconoclastic best in this exploration of bourgeois values, particularly in the clash between respectable society and the dubious bohemian world of Art and Poetry. Cornelia Saunders has everything going for her in her middle-class world: comfort, good looks, attentive young men. She seems willing to risk it all for the sake of what might be an artistic Gift, venturing with great trepidation to put her foot over the line into Bohemia to see if it might be the thing for her. Skewering the conventions of sentimental literature as usual, Howells keeps the reader guessing to the end as to the fate of Cornelia and her Gift. | |
Boy Life Stories and Readings Selected From The Works of William Dean Howells | |
Five O'Clock Tea Farce | |
A Pair of Patient Lovers | |
Evening Dress Farce | |
A Boy's Town | |
Bride Roses | |
The Garotters | |
A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction | |
The Minister's Charge | |
The Flight of Pony Baker A Boy's Town Story | |
Some Anomalies of the Short Story (from Literature and Life) | |
The Story of a Play A Novel | |
Imaginary Interviews | |
Studies of Lowell (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) | |
Poems | |
Roundabout to Boston (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) | |
London Films | |
Complete March Family Trilogy | |
The Register | |
Italian Journeys | |
Cambridge Neighbors (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) | |
The Man of Letters as a Man of Business | |
The Parlor Car | |
Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance | |
An Open-Eyed Conspiracy; an Idyl of Saratoga | |
A Likely Story | |
Suburban Sketches | |
Their Wedding Journey | |
Standard Household-Effect Company, the (from Literature and Life) | |
Literary Boston as I Knew It (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) | |
Fennel and Rue | |
Editor's Relations with the Young Contributor (from Literature and Life) | |
Oliver Wendell Holmes (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) | |
The Kentons | |
Staccato Notes of a Vanished Summer (from Literature and Life) | |
The Leatherwood God | |
White Mr. Longfellow, the (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) | |
Confessions of a Summer Colonist (from Literature and Life) | |
Questionable Shapes | |
(French) rencontre
Kitty Ellison, orpheline vit avec la famille de son oncle dans l'Etat de New York. En voyage, sur le bateau à vapeur quittant le Québec pour remonter le Saguenay, elle fait la connaissance de l'aristocrate Miles Arbuton de Boston. Il s'éprend de la jeune fille et la demande en mariage. Kitty est consciente de leur différence de milieu, mais accepte sa proposition. Quand des amis aristocrates de Arbuton les rejoignent, celui-ci change de comportement. - Summary by Margot | |
Hope
volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Hope by William Dean Howells. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 7, 2019. ------ A short, vivid seafaring poem that holds out hope for an afterlife, wonderfully crafted by William Dean Howells, an American novelist, literary critic, poet and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, as well as for his own prolific writings | |
Twain and Howells On Each Other
Mark Twain and William Dean Howells were friends for 44 years. Their personal and professional relationship is considered by many to be one of the most important in American literature. Howells published his famous "My Mark Twain" in the same year Clemens died, 1910. A few years earlier, Clemens wrote this "remembrance" and "appreciation" of the man who stuck with him through the ups and downs of his long literary journey. | |
Heroines of Fiction
This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bronte, Thackeray, and others. These studies of nineteenth-century literature were by a critical light of the time. | |
Indian Summer (version 2)
Set in Florence's Anglo-American colony in the late 19th century, this is a romantic story of a middle-aged man, returning to the scene of his first but disappointed love twenty years earlier. The doings of Americans abroad were staples of the fictions of Henry James and Edith Wharton, but Howells’s view is rather different. As John Updike has said of it, “the felicity of the writing makes us pause in admiration….A midlife crisis has rarely been sketched in fiction with better humor, with gentler comedy and more gracious acceptance of life’s irrevocability.” ( Nicholas Clifford) | |
Last Days in a Dutch Hotel (from Literature and Life) |