William Dean Howells
7) London Films
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Howells wrote several captivating travel books, including Italian Journeys, Venetian Life, and Certain Delightful English Towns. Here, he turns his observant and sometimes critical eye to London, presenting a series of sketches of the city as if they were mental movies.
9) April Hopes
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
William Dean Howells, the highly respected author of novels of social realism, occasionally turned his storytelling skills to romantic comedies. In 1888 he published April Hopes, a comedy of manners that follows the romantic complications between a young woman and her fiancé.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Rise of Silas Lapham, by William Dean Howells, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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Author
Series
Library of America volume 44
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by the Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1989
Physical Desc
881 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Bonanza Books
Pub. Date
[1969]
Physical Desc
xxviii, 707 p. : ill., facsim. ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Master wit Mark Twain selected these twenty-seven stories himself by fifteen of his favorite nineteenth century authors. The order follows that which Twain placed them in in the original anthology, published in 1888. He indulged his comic fancy rather than making a textbook in which all themes or authors are placed together, saying that "This way, you will have to peruse the whole thing before discovering that one of your favorites is not included."...