Poetry Books by William Dean Howells
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published Date: 2006-10-01
Categories: Literary Criticism
A splendid work of criticism that introduces us to Howell, the well-versed literary critic. He discusses the writings of various authors through the ages - for instance Cervantes, Shakespeare, Pope, Tolstoy - in great detail. His criticism is based on his in-depth study which makes the book highly informative. Truly enlightening!
Publisher: The Floating Press
Published Date: 2017-02-01
Categories: Fiction
In this novel from "Dean of American Letters" William Dean Howells, a country bumpkin named Lemuel Barker makes his way to the big city to find his fortune. But once there, Barker finds it difficult to blend in with the posh and sophisticated Boston elite.
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published Date: 2006-01-01
Categories: Literary Criticism
Very likely the reading of Ossian had something to do with my morbid anxieties. I had read Byron's imitation of him before that, and admired it prodigiously, and when my father got me the book--as usual I did not know where or how he got it--not all the tall forms that moved before the eyes of haunted bards in the dusky vale of autumn could have kept me from it.
Publisher: The Floating Press
Published Date: 2017-02-01
Categories: Fiction
In this collection of three longer stories, famed proponent of literary realism William Dean Howells flirts with the supernatural. However, in keeping with Howells' sensibility, these tales aren't hackneyed ghost stories -- instead, their horror derives from subtle psychological and mental nuances.
Publisher: The Floating Press
Published Date: 2017-02-01
Categories: Fiction
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.
Publisher: The Floating Press
Published Date: 2010-11-01
Categories: Fiction
Author of the beloved novel The Rise of Silas Lapham, William Dean Howells is known as one of the foremost practitioners of the literary style known as realism. In Their Silver Wedding Journey, Howells provides a coda to his earlier novel, Their Wedding Journey, filling readers in on how the ensuing years have changed and shaped the couple at the center of both books, the Marches.
Publisher: Tacet Books
Published Date: 2019-05-07
Categories: Fiction
Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of William Dean Howells which are The Rise of Silas Lapham and The Lady of the Aroostook. William Dean Howells was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". Novels selected for this book: - The Rise of Silas Lapham - The Lady of the Aroostook This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.
Publisher: The Floating Press
Published Date: 2017-02-01
Categories: Fiction
In this engaging novel from "Dean of American Letters" William Dean Howells, a sheltered young woman from the Midwest makes her way to New York to pursue a career as an artist. Once there, she experiences a vertiginous degree of culture shock as she falls in with a crowd of counterculture intellectuals.
Publisher: The Floating Press
Published Date: 2017-02-01
Categories: Fiction
Drawing on his own experience as an American diplomat in Venice, William Dean Howells' gripping novel Ragged Lady pits a Venetian vice-consul against a network of influential foes when he takes up the cause of a young woman who has been wrongfully denied her inheritance.
