William Dean Howells - Libros y biografía

William Dean Howells' novel, 'The Landlord at Lion's Head Complete,' is a masterpiece of American realism that delves into the complexities of social class and personal ambition in 19th-century New England....

William Dean Howells' 'Modern Italian Poets; Essays and Versions' is a unique exploration of Italian poetry in the late 19th century. Howells provides insightful essays on prominent Italian poets such...

William Dean Howells' book 'Their Silver Wedding Journey Complete' is a delightful recount of a couple's journey as they celebrate their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. Written in Howells' signature...

In 'My Year in a Log Cabin' by William Dean Howells, readers are taken on a journey through a year spent living in a rustic log cabin. Howells' descriptive and introspective literary style gives readers...

William Dean Howells' novel, 'A Hazard of New Fortunes', is a classic work of American literary realism set in the Gilded Age of late 19th century New York City. The novel explores the themes of social...

William Dean Howells's 'Poems' presents a collection of heartfelt and emotional poems that reflect the author's profound insights into human experiences and relationships. Written in a free verse style,...

William Dean Howells' 'The Albany Depot: a Farce' is a comedic play that offers a satirical exploration of American society during the late 19th century. The work exhibits Howells' signature literary...

William Dean Howells' 'Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life)' is a collection of insightful and thought-provoking pieces that reflect the late 19th-century American literary context. Howells'...

William Dean Howells' novel 'The Garotters' is a compelling narrative set in mid-19th century Boston, exploring the social inequalities and moral dilemmas faced by characters intertwined in a web of crime...

In William Dean Howells' novel, 'The Minister's Charge; Or, The Apprenticeship of Lemuel Barker', the reader is transported to a quaint New England town where the young protagonist, Lemuel Barker, is...

William Dean Howells' 'The Man of Letters as a Man of Business' is a seminal work that delves into the complexities of balancing art and commerce in the world of literature. Howells discusses the changing...

William Dean Howells' novel 'The Kentons' is a poignant exploration of family dynamics and societal norms in late 19th-century America. Through the story of the Kenton family, Howells delves into themes...

In 'The Landlord at Lion's Head' Mr. Howells has returned to the New England which he knows so well. Indeed, his absolute intimacy with the life there, his vivid power of reproducing it, contradicts Mr....

In "The Undiscovered Country", Mr. Howells appears in a new phase, and adds somewhat of the definite moral purpose of the teacher to the grace and finish of the literary artist. From the opening of the...

The "Italian Journeys" of Mr. Howells date from the year 1864, when the author was still our Consul at Venice, and had just taken the first step in his long, honorable career as a man of letters by the...

The heroine of the 'Ragged Lady' is a New England type of young girl — strong, pure, uneducated, loyal, proud; a girl whose head always governs her heart, and whose moral sense permits no confusion in...

"Out of the Question" is an amusing trifle, with just a thread of a plot, about the love of a young society girl for a brave young fellow without any social position other than his brains has gained him;...

'The Story of a Play' is a pleasing addition to the list of the charming trivialities to which Mr. Howells has chiefly devoted himself in the late years of the 19th century. It now seems a confirmed habit...

'An Open-Eyed Conspiracy' is an extremely delightful book, and delightful in a way in which many American writers have long striven, and are still striving to attract, or distract, the attention of their...

This work of Mr. Howells is similar in lightness of material and delicacy of workman ship to "A Fearful Responsibility" and other minor productions of his deft hand which hold a unique and ill-defined...

"The Rise of Silas Lapham" is a Bostonian novel. A Boston family of the strict Brahminical type, the Coreys, finds itself under obligations for help in a painful emergency to the Laphams, a family of...

Rutherford B. Hayes was the 19th president of the United States from 1877 to 1881, having served in the U.S. House of Representatives and as governor of Ohio. Hayes, a lawyer and staunch abolitionist,...

'The Leatherwood God' is a veritable history , for it tells the truth and more than the truth . It satisfies the reader' s demand for facts and it fulfills his cravings for fantasy. It convinces us that...

There is something delightfully intimate about this miscellany of verse, fiction and study. One has almost the feeling of being invited to draw up a comfortable seat opposite the "Easy Chair" to listen...

"A Modern Instance" is among the most vigorous performances that Mr. Howells has given to the public. The fine humor of his previous writings is here; the descriptive power, which with a few words enables...

'Miss Bellard's Inspiration' has a charm altogether out of proportion to its pretensions. It is no more than a novelette in dimensions, and its story is of the simplest. but displays in the telling a...

A companion volume to 'London Films', in which Mr. Howells writes of Bath, Oxford, Canterbury and other delightful English towns, with glimpses of the country in between. The author catches the true spirit...

Mr. Howells dips into psychological twilight in this volume of short stories. They are queer and creepy without being exactly supernatural. In "Editha" there is a war story of a new kind, although its...

This volume includes the following stories by William Dean Howells: "A Day's Pleasure", "Buying a Horse", "Flitting", "The Mouse" and "A Year in a Venetian Palace."

In 'A Hazard of New Fortunes' Mr. Howells took for his hero the editor of a New York magazine. In 'The World of Chance' the leading character is a young journalist of Midland, a town indefinitely located...