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My Year In A Log Cabin
My Year In A Log Cabin – William Dean Howells Mr. Howells‘ father, who was a Welshman, moved to a property on the Little Miami River in southern Ohio to take charge of a sawmill and gristmill and superintend their transformation into paper-mills. Mr. Howells describes a year of this life in a half-settled country, […]
The World Of Chance
The World Of Chance – William Dean Howells In ‚A Hazard of New Fortunes‘ Mr. Howells took for his hero the editor of a New York magazine. In ‚The World of Chance‘ the leading character is a young journalist of Midland, a town indefinitely located a day’s journey west of New York City. He goes […]
A Little Swiss Sojourn
A Little Swiss Sojourn – William Dean Howells ‚A Little Swiss Sojourn‘ was passed in the village of Villeneuve in the canton of Vaud, where a comfortable pension, vineyards galore, a gothic chapel, the placid lake, the snow-covered Alps, an occasional château (to let, furnished, for $500 a year) lent charm, dignity and ample opportunity […]
The Quality Of Mercy
The Quality Of Mercy – William Dean Howells Mr. Howells has this time chosen a subject for illustration which affords plenty of ground for serious thinking. He has written a story of defalcation; the too familiar story of the treasurer of a rich corporation who, himself rich, is greedy for more money; who first uses […]
Criticism And Fiction
Criticism And Fiction – William Dean Howells In ‚Criticism and Fiction‘ Mr. Howells gives his ideas of the proper functions of critics, and the lines along which he may be supposed to have written his novels . He considers criticism an entirely contemplative branch of literature; finding in it, seemingly, no creative potentialities . The […]
An Imperative Duty
An Imperative Duty – William Dean Howells Mr. Howells‘ latest novel deserves and will receive wide reading. It deals with a problem which had found its way into American social life of his time: „How will a cultivated and beautiful woman feel if she discovers that she has a tinge of negro blood in her […]
A Boy’s Town
A Boy’s Town – William Dean Howells The question of the identity of ‚A Boy’s Town‘, has excited almost as much interest, in a certain section of our country, as the long-discussed question of the birthplace of Homer. That Mr. Howells is his own Boy there can be no doubt. But Mr. Howells, according to […]
The Shadow Of A Dream
The Shadow Of A Dream – William Dean Howells ‚The Shadow of a Dream‘ makes readers familiar with this rather peculiar development of a peculiar subject, and the tragic ending which is so much more pronounced than any other of the real facts of Howells‘ novels on which one can decisively lay a finger, as […]
A Hazard Of New Fortunes
A Hazard Of New Fortunes – William Dean Howells No one can complain that in this story Mr. Howells has taken his type from the commonplace. It is a study of life in New York, and the author has brought together such a gallery of odd and strongly differentiated characters as could perhaps be found […]