Howells William: 319 books
by William Dean Howells
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
Known as The Dean of American Letters, William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was a realist author and literary critic best known for his tenure as one of the most influential editors of the Atlantic Monthly, which is still an important publication today. And though Howells is known mostly for his work...
A BOY'S TOWN ADVENTURES: The Flight of Pony Baker, Boy Life, A Boy's Town & Years of My Youth (Illustrated Edition)
Children's Book Classics
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
In this series, William Dean Howells delightfully describes the early years of his life, in the "Boy's Town” of Ohio, the state where he was born and raised. These stories remain as a vivid autobiographical records and colorful images of a life in the mid-nineteenth century American town. Extract:...
Boy Life
Stories and Readings Selected From The Works of William Dean Howells
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885...
Dystopian Classics: Through the Eye of the Needle & A Traveler from Altruria
From the Author of The Rise of Silas Lapham, Christmas Every Day, A Hazard of New Fortunes, The Flight of Pony Baker, A Modern Instance & Indian Summer
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Set during the early 1890s in a fashionable summer resort somewhere on the East Coast of the United States, A Traveler from Altruria is narrated by a Mr Twelvemough, a popular author of light fiction who has been selected to function as host to a visitor from the faraway island of Altruria called...
by William Dean Howells
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2019
Considered "The Dean of American Letters," Willian Dean Howells has broad range of works appealing to young and old. His writing style favored naturalism, in which he related his characters' observations in a seemingly casual and endearing manner by embracing their imperfections. In these...
by William Dean Howells
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Known as The Dean of American Letters, William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was a realist author and literary critic best known for his tenure as one of the most influential editors of the Atlantic Monthly, which is still an important publication today. And though Howells is known mostly for his work as...
by William Dean Howells
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
William Dean Howells spent few years in Venice as a consul and he wove the life of the town and country into fiction in a charming manner. Images of this can be found especially in "A Foregone Conclusion", one of his "Venice novels". The history and the background of Venice represent...
by William Dean Howells
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
Known as The Dean of American Letters, William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was a realist author and literary critic best known for his tenure as one of the most influential editors of the Atlantic Monthly, which is still an important publication today. And though Howells is known mostly for his work...
by William Dean Howells
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
Known as The Dean of American Letters, William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was a realist author and literary critic best known for his tenure as one of the most influential editors of the Atlantic Monthly, which is still an important publication today. And though Howells is known mostly for his work...
A BOY'S TOWN ADVENTURES - Complete Series: The Flight of Pony Baker, Boy Life, A Boy's Town & Years of My Youth (Illustrated)
Children's Book Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2015
This carefully crafted ebook: "A BOY'S TOWN ADVENTURES - Complete Series: The Flight of Pony Baker, Boy Life, A Boy's Town & Years of My Youth (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. In this series, William Dean Howells delightfully...
An Open-Eyed Conspiracy (Unabridged)
An Idyl of Saratoga
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2016
This carefully crafted ebook: "An Open-Eyed Conspiracy (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The story follows a few people from New York who find them-selves spending a hot summer in this small town. In this book William Dean Howells...
by William Dean Howells
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
In 1860, W. D. Howells wrote a campaign biography of Abraham Lincoln. When Lincoln won the presidency, Howells was rewarded with the job of consul in Venice.He arrived there in 1862, aged twenty-five, and lived for three years on the Grand Canal. Howells would use the canal for a morning swim during...
Italian Journeys
From Venice to Naples and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
When Abraham Lincoln appointed William Dean Howells Consul to Venice, the young writer embarked on a journey that would leave an indelible impression on his life and work. Howells lived in Italy for four years, from 1861, during the pivotal and tumultuous period of Italian reunification. Italian Journeys,...
by William Dean Howells
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
“You have done nothing more true and complete,” wrote Henry James about William Dean Howells’s novel The Kentons. Here, Howells follows a Midwestern family as they travel first to New York and then to Holland—in order to take the daughter, Ellen, away from an abusive relationship. Along the way...