William Dean Howells
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Exeter, Plymouth, Oxford, Southampton, London... readers will feel the pleasure of being in England upon reading William Dean Howells's engaging travelogue of his visit there in the early 1900s. Originally published as individual essays in Harper's Magazine, these charming travel vignettes are the perfect read for travelers and armchairs dreamers alike.
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Published in 1910, this book is a testament to the long friendship between Howells and Twain. "Emerson, Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, I knew them all and all the rest of our sages, poets, seers, critics, humorists," Howells writes, "they were like one another and like other literary men, but Clemens [Twain] was sole, incomparable, the Lincoln of our literature." The second half of the book collects Howells's perceptive reviews of Twain's works.
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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.
25) Vida veneciana
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Howells recoge en Vida veneciana sus recuerdos de los dos años en que, en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, residió en Venecia como miembro del cuerpo diplomático estadounidense.
En estas páginas, según Henry James, Howells se muestra como uno de los escritores norteamericanos con mayor encanto, gracias a su agudeza y a su vivacidad como observador, y como un viajero sentimental, que nos sirve de guía por los lugares menos conocidos pero más...
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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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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 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...
29) 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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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.
31) 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.
32) April Hopes
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William Dean Howells, the highly respected author of novels of social realism, occasionally turned his storytelling skills to romantic comedies. In 1888 he published April Hopes, a comedy of manners that follows the romantic complications between a young woman and her fiancé.
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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.
35) Venetian Life
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At the outbreak of the Civil War, Howells was appointed United States consul in Venice, Italy. In Venetian Life, an utterly engaging travelogue, Howells revises a series of travel letters he had written about his experiences in Venice for the Boston Advertiser. Honest in its love for (yet discomfort in) Venice, it would be followed by Italian Journeys.
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Some of William Dean Howells's best fiction examines the contrast between different manners or levels of sophistication, a subject made familiar to him in part by his sojourn as an American in Italy. This collection of stories shows American and Italian manners in conflict, drawing on Howells's own experiences as a diplomat in Venice.
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Published in 1900, this volume contains Howells' personal reminiscences of a number of the most celebrated American writers, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, James Russell Lowell, and others.
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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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At the New York City gentlemen's club known as the Turkish Room, members gathered to tell stories of psychic phenomena and the supernatural. This 1903 departure for the "Dean of American Realism" includes three novellas: "His Apparition," "The Angel of the Lord," and "Though One Rose from the Dead."