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The Son Of Royal Langbrith
The Son Of Royal Langbrith – William Dean Howells Mr. Howells is at his best in this novel. There is in it the same perfection of finish, the same absolute sureness of technique, the same realism (to use an overworked word, but here used in its true sense, not meaning either nastiness or stupidity) which […]
Questionable Shapes
Questionable Shapes – William Dean Howells Boston had been busied with psychical research for some years, and Prof. William James has had a good deal to say about Mrs. Piper, so that it is not surprising after all to find Mr. W. D. Howells toying with the supernatural in his book ‚Questionable Shapes.‘ Realists need […]
Letters Home
Letters Home – William Dean Howells A group of people from Boston and inland towns of Iowa and New York spent the three months between December and March, 1901 – 1902, in New York City for different reasons. Their „letters home“ to various relations and friends tell an ingenious story. The fascination of the great […]
Literature And Life
Literature And Life – William Dean Howells One of the greatest rewards which literary fame has to give must be the power which it lends an author of being on intimate terms with his public. An author has won his spurs, his public know and love him, and he can then, if he will, talk […]
The Flight Of Pony Baker
The Flight Of Pony Baker – William Dean Howells ‚The Flight of Pony Baker‘ will at once commend itself to boys and their elders because it is the work of William Dean Howells. Mr. Howells knows the modern American boy so thoroughly, his ambitions and traits, his temptations and joys, that one is predisposed to […]
The Kentons
The Kentons – William Dean Howells W. D. Howells is quite in his best vein in ‚The Kentons.‘ Like all of his work, this possesses that quality which we expect in a classic, but rarely look for and more rarely find in contemporary fiction, of repaying the closest and most minute reading, and it is […]
Heroines Of Fiction
Heroines Of Fiction – William Dean Howells The numerous class of novel readers who for a lifetime have wandered through the fields of fiction, not premeditatedly seeking mental or moral improvement, but with a mind chiefly on „pleasure bent,“ have a treat in store in ‚Heroines of Fiction.‘ Mr. Howells does not write of his […]
A Pair Of Patient Lovers
A Pair Of Patient Lovers – William Dean Howells The five stories contained in this volume are „A Pair of Patient Lovers“, „The Pursuit of the Piano“, „A Difficult Case“,“ The Magic of a Voice“ and „A Circle in the Water“. These are stories of the sort that only Mr. Howells knows how to write. […]
Literary Friends And Acquaintance
Literary Friends And Acquaintance – William Dean Howells Mr. William Dean Howells has written many books of several kinds which have entertained a great many people of all kinds, but no single book of any kind in which his various talents appear to such advantage to themselves and enjoyment of their readers as in his […]
Their Silver Wedding Journey
Their Silver Wedding Journey – William Dean Howells The story of Mr. W. D. Howells’s ‚Their Silver Wedding Journey‘ is ‚Their Wedding Journey‘ over again, after an interval of twenty-five years; and a clever and entertaining recital of familiarities it is. It is like looking in the glass to read such a tale, and there […]