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Annie Kilburn
Annie Kilburn – William Dean Howells Mr. Howells‘ novel exhibits the influence of many disturbing elements upon the mind of the writer. What they call the „zeitgeist“ in Germany is strongly reflected in the pages of „Annie Kilburn;“ and the lenses through which current social phenomena are viewed are not those of optimism. The heroine […]
April Hopes
April Hopes – William Dean Howells Mr. Howells shows a light and exquisite touch in „April Hopes,“ a novel, it is safe to say, in which all his finer qualities are seen at their best. The sweetness of it is perhaps a trifle cloying now and then to robust palates, but the story is for […]
Modern Italian Poets
Modern Italian Poets – William Dean Howells How many of the intelligent play-goers of this intelligent land and of the present period could tell, without the play-bills in their hands, that Alfieri was the creator of Ristori’s „Mirra“ and of Salvini’s „Saul“ ? How many of the general readers of English verse know who Alfieri […]
The Minister’s Charge
The Minister’s Charge – William Dean Howells With ‚The Minister’s Charge‘ Mr. Howells has reached the point where his books are less interesting individually than as parts of a series, and one has the satisfaction with these later works of being able to read them by the light of the author’s own canons of criticism. […]
Indian Summer
Indian Summer – William Dean Howells Mr. Howells is giving us in ‚ Indian Summer‘ some of the very best work he has ever done ; full of the same dainty piquantness, but alive with deeper sympathies and meanings. This is full, not merely of what average people say and do, but of what average […]
The Rise Of Silas Lapham
The Rise Of Silas Lapham – William Dean Howells „The Rise of Silas Lapham“ is a Bostonian novel. A Boston family of the strict Brahminical type, the Coreys, finds itself under obligations for help in a painful emergency to the Laphams, a family of crude manners, mushroom wealth, and sterling virtue. The Laphams, pricked to […]
The Minor Dramas
The Minor Dramas – William Dean Howells Apart from his many novels, William Dean Howells was a prolific author of plays, especially farces. This volume includes the following of his works: The Parlor-Car, The Sleeping Car, The Register, The Elevator, The Garotters, Five O’clock Tea, A Likely Story, The Albany Depot, A Letter Of Introduction, The […]
Tuscan Cities
Tuscan Cities – William Dean Howells To meet Mr. Howells again on his Italian rambles is like rejoining an old friend in the midst of scenes associated with the beginning of our friendship. This rich volume is a grateful recollection of the book which first gave him a place in our standard literature. Much of […]
Three Villages
Three Villages – William Dean Howells In this volume Mr. Howells has collected three short pieces which show his power under various aspects. The pleasantest and in a literary sense the best of the three is the charming paper on ‚Lexington,‘ originally contributed to Longman’s Magazine. It is distinguished by that happy faculty of description, […]
A Woman’s Reason
A Woman’s Reason – William Dean Howells „A Woman’s Reason“ is certainly one of the most ambitious novels Mr. Howells has written, not merely because it is so long, but because the author has reached out for effects which he neglected in his earlier books. It is not a radical departure from his established methods, […]