Howells William: 319 books

Stories of the doings of boys in a village of southern Ohio about 1850. Delightful to adults in its humorous photography of a boy's mind.

In those walks of ours I believe he did most of the talking, and from his talk then and at other times there remains to me an impression of his growing conservatism. I had in fact come into his life when it had spent its impulse towards positive reform, and I was to be witness of its increasing tendency towards the negative sort.

Near the verge of a bold promontory stands the hotel, and looks southeastward over a sweep of sea unbroken to the horizon. Behind it stretches the vast forest, which after two hundred years has resumed the sterile coast wrested from it by the first Pilgri

After having been orphaned at a young age, Lydia Blood has been shuffled between relatives for much of her life. At the age of 19, she is being sent to live with an aunt who lives in Venice, where Lydia hopes to find success as a singer. But her plans are swayed after a life-changing encounter on the journey to Italy.

Theodore Colville, editore di un giornale in una cittadina di provincia dell’Indiana, è all’apice della carriera quando viene coinvolto in uno scandalo politico. Per recuperare tranquillità decide allora di vendere la testata e di recarsi a Firenze, città dove anni prima aveva vissuto un...

Theodore Colville, editore di un giornale in una cittadina di provincia dell’Indiana, è all’apice della carriera quando viene coinvolto in uno scandalo politico. Decide allora di vendere la testata e si reca a Firenze, città a cui lo legano i ricordi contrastanti di un amore sfortunato, e lì...