William Dean Howells Books


Southern Lights and Shadows

William Dean Howells

Southern Lights and Shadows is a collection of American short stories written by carious authors and edited by William Dean Howells And Henry Mills Alden. The most noticeable characteristic of th..

The Editor's Relations with the Young Contributor (from Literature and Life)

William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". One of the trustiest jokes of the humorous paragrapher is that the edi..

Their Silver Wedding Journey

William Dean Howells

It was then a magazine of a new sort, which his business partner had imagined in such leisure as the management of a newspaper syndicate afforded him, and had always thought of getting March to edit. ..

The Landlord at Lion's Head

William Dean Howells

In those dim recesses of the consciousness where things have their beginning, if ever things have a beginning, I suppose the origin of this novel may be traced to a fact of a fortnight's sojourn on th..

A Hazard of New Fortunes

William Dean Howells

Howell’s novel is set in New York of the late nineteenth century, a city familiar to readers of Edith Wharton and Henry James. Basil March, a businessman from Boston of a literary bent, moves with his..

Ragged Lady

William Dean Howells

It was their first summer at Middlemount and the Landers did not know the roads. When they came to a place where they had a choice of two, she said that now he must get out of the carry-all and ask at..

Impressions and experiences

William Dean Howells

My earliest memories, or those which I can make sure are not the sort of early hearsay that we mistake for remembrance later in life, concern a country newspaper, or, rather, a country printing-office..

The World of Chance

William Dean Howells

The next evening, under a rich, mild October sky, the train drew in towards New York over a long stretch of trestle-work spanning a New Jersey estuary. Ray had thriftily left his sleeper at the statio..