William Dean Howells
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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, set out for THE PORTER to black. THE PORTER is making up the beds in the upper and lower berths adjoining the seats on which a young mother, slender and pretty, with a baby asleep on the seat beside...
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The first Ohio stories are part of the common story of the wonderful Ice Age, when a frozen deluge pushed down from the north, and covered a vast part of the earth's surface with slowly moving glaciers. The traces that this age left in Ohio are much the same as it left elsewhere, and the signs that there were people here ten thousand years ago, when the glaciers began to melt and the land became fit to live in again, are such as have been found in...
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In addition to his eminence as a novelist, William Dean Howells was a prominent figure in the development of the American theater. He wrote the play, “A Counterfeit Presentment” in 1877. The comedy develops a slightly romantic and dramatic side as it follows the two main characters, Barlett and Cummings.
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Howells spent several years in Italy as a diplomat. He wrote a number of timeless books based on his travels there, including Italian Journeys and Venetian Life. A captivating portrait of one of Italy's fabled regions, Tuscan Cities is indispensable reading for travelers and armchair 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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This 1895 collection of verse, gorgeously illustrated by Howard Pyle, contains among other poems "The Bewildered Guest," "Midway," "From Generation to Generation," "The Burden," "Reward and Punishment," and "Friends and Foes." After losing his daughter a few years before, Howells proved with this collection that he was not an irrepressible optimist.
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Out of a mere thread of a plot and a few characters Mr. Howells weaves a very charming little comedy. His characters consist of Miss Constance Wyatt, her father and mother, a Mr. Bartlett, a painter and his friend Rev. Arthur Cummings. The scene opens in the parlor of the Ponkwasset Hotel, the time being in the fall, and the house almost deserted by boarders. Mr. Bartlett and his friend are in the midst of a discussion of Mr. Bartlett's affairs, when...
12) 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...
13) Italian Journeys
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William Dean Howells served as a diplomat in Venice, Italy, a result of which is this delightful travel narrative. In Italian Journeys, Italy comes alive—Howells details a grand adventure as he makes his way around the country by land and sea, and visits such fabled cities as Rome, Naples, and Genoa.
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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 two volumes, Howells's studies in the great heroines of nineteenth century English-language fiction make delightful reading. This first volume takes the reader from Fanny Burney's unforgettable Evelina to the Bronte sisters' remarkable Jane and Catherine. Along the way, female protagonists from the works of Edgeworth, Austen, Radcliffe, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, and Thackeray, among others, are closely and keenly observed.
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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.
19) 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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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.