William Dean Howells Books


Emile Zola

William Dean Howells

In these times of electrical movement, the sort of construction in the moral world for which ages were once needed, takes place almost simultaneously with the event to be adjusted in history, and as t..

A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction

William Dean Howells

A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction by William Dean Howells. It is consoling as often as dismaying to find in what seems a cataclysmal tide of a certain direction a strong drift to the o..

Anomalies of the Short Story

William Dean Howells

The interesting experiment of one of our great publishing houses in putting out serially several volumes of short stories, with the hope that a courageous persistence may overcome the popular indiffer..

A Modern Instance

William Dean Howells

A Modern Instance is a realistic novel written by William Dean Howells. The novel is about the deterioration of a once loving marriage under the influence of capitalistic greed. It is the first Americ..

The March Family Trilogy

William Dean Howells

The March Family Trilogy is a collection of three novels by the famous American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, William Dean Howells...

Evening Dress

William Dean Howells

In the short comic play Evening Dress, William Dean Howells' bumbling recurring character Mr. Roberts finds himself in another ridiculous quandary. This time around, a planned evening out on the town ..

A Pair of Patient Lovers

William Dean Howells

A Pair of Patient Lovers is a collection of five short stories written by William Dean Howells,  an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Let..

Through the Eye of the Needle

William Dean Howells

Through the Eye of the Needle is a Utopian romance novel and third of Altrurian trilogy written by William Dean Howells, an American playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters".Author's ..