William Dean Howells (1837–1920)
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William Dean Howells was born in Martin's Ferry, Ohio on March 1, 1837. He dropped out of school to work as a typesetter and a printer's apprentice. He taught himself through intensive reading and the study of Spanish, French, Latin, and German. He wrote a campaign biography of Abraham Lincoln in visa mer 1860. Lincoln appointed him U.S. consul in Venice, Italy in 1861 as a reward. After returning to the U.S. several years later, he became an assistant editor for The Atlantic Monthly, later becoming editor from 1871 to 1881. He also wrote columns for Harper's New Monthly Magazine and occasional pieces for The North American Review. As an editor and critic, he was a proponent of American realism. Although he wrote over a 100 books in various genres including novels, poems, literary criticism, plays, memoirs, and travel narratives, he is best known for his realistic fiction. His novels include A Modern Instance, The Rise of Silas Lapham, A Hazard of New Fortunes, The Undiscovered Country, A Chance Acquaintance, An Imperative Duty, Annie Kilburn, and The Coast of Bohemia. He received several honorary degrees from universities as well as a Gold Medal for fiction (later renamed after him as the Howells Medal) from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He died from pneumonia on May 11, 1920. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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(eng) This is the author page for the American diplomat, novelist and critic. For the anthropologist, please see William Howells.
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Novels 1875-1886: A Foregone Conclusion, A Modern Instance, Indian Summer, The Rise of Silas Lapham (1982) 324 exemplar
William Dean Howells : Novels 1886-1888 : The Minister's Charge / April Hopes / Annie Kilburn (Library of America) (1989) 242 exemplar
Cambridge Neighbors: From Literary Friends and Acquaintance (World Cultural Heritage Library) (2009) 7 exemplar
The mouse-trap. Farce 5 exemplar
Life in letters of William Dean Howells 5 exemplar
Selected writings of W.D.Howells 5 exemplar
A day's pleasure 4 exemplar
Complete Works of Mark Twain 4 exemplar
Three villages 4 exemplar
A fearful responsibility 4 exemplar
A Counterfeit Presentment: Comedy 3 exemplar
The Greatest Christmas Stories & Poems in One Volume: 150 Tales, Poems & Carols (Illustrated): Silent Night, Ring Out… (2015) 3 exemplar
Letters home 3 exemplar
The country printer 2 exemplar
Heroines of fiction, volume I 2 exemplar
A realist in the American theatre : selected drama criticism of William Dean Howells (1992) 2 exemplar
The Incredible Tales of Ohio (Illustrated Edition): The Renegades, The First Great Settlements, The Captivity of James… (2017) 2 exemplar
William Dean Howells - Premium Collection: 27 Novels in One Volume (Illustrated): The Rise of Silas Lapham, A Traveler… (2015) 2 exemplar
Venetian Life: In Two Volumes, Vol. I 2 exemplar
Eine preussische Konigstochter: Glanz und Elend am Hofe des Soldatenkonigs in den Memoiren der Markgrafin Wilhelmine… (1981) 2 exemplar
Mark Twain-Howells Letters: The Correspondence of Samuel L. Clemens and William D. Howells, 1869-1910 [Two Volumes] (1960) 2 exemplar
The Howells Story Book 2 exemplar
A BOY'S TOWN ADVENTURES: The Flight of Pony Baker, Boy Life, A Boy's Town & Years of My Youth (Illustrated… (2015) 2 exemplar
Собрание сочинений в восьми томах 2 exemplar
L'estate di San Martino 1 exemplar
LibriVox Christmas Short Works Collection 2020 — Författare — 1 exemplar
novels, 1886- 1 exemplar
a story of a play 1 exemplar
American Critical Essays, XIX-XX Century (The World's Classics) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Venetian Life 1 exemplar
Christmas Short Works Collection 2014 — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Their Wedding Journey 1 exemplar
Italian Journeys, Vol. 1 1 exemplar
Italian Journeys, Vol. 2 1 exemplar
A Woman's Reason 1 exemplar
Venetian Life: In Two Volumes, Vol. II 1 exemplar
The Vacation of the Kelwyns 1 exemplar
Howells Criticism and Fiction and other essays edited by Clara Marburg Kirk and Rudolf Kirk (1959) 1 exemplar
Tuscan Cities 1 exemplar
The complete plays of W.D. Howells 1 exemplar
Certian Delightful English Towns 1 exemplar
TUTTI I GIORNI NATALE 1 exemplar
Riscurile parvenirii 1 exemplar
Room Forty-Five : A Farce 1 exemplar
Christmas Everyday Gift Set 1 exemplar
Doorstep acquaintance, and other sketches 1 exemplar
The unexpected guests : a farce 1 exemplar
Hither and thither in Germany 1 exemplar
“Henry James, Jr.” 1 exemplar
A parting and a meeting story 1 exemplar
The smoking car : a farce 1 exemplar
Dystopian Classics: Through the Eye of the Needle & A Traveler from Altruria: From the Author of The Rise of Silas… (2017) 1 exemplar
Out of the question : a comedy 1 exemplar
The Complete Travel Books of William Dean Howells: Travel Memoirs & Reports from Traveling Across Europe (Illustrated):… (2015) 1 exemplar
Amazing Stories from the History of Ohio (Illustrated): The Renegades, The First Great Settlements, The Captivity of… (2016) 1 exemplar
Une Rencontre: Roman de Deux Touristes sur le Saint-Laurent Et le Saguenay (Classic Reprint) (French Edition) (2017) 1 exemplar
Undiscovered Country-Volume 2 1 exemplar
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.] (1977) — Bidragsgivare — 295 exemplar
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Bidragsgivare — 154 exemplar
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 132 exemplar
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Bidragsgivare — 93 exemplar
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Bidragsgivare — 83 exemplar
Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated) (2011) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor — 77 exemplar
Socialism in America from the Shakers to the Third International (1970) — Bidragsgivare — 41 exemplar
Published and Perished: Memoria, Eulogies, and Remembrances of American Writers (2002) — Bidragsgivare — 37 exemplar
Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.] (2012) — Bidragsgivare — 37 exemplar
Best Plays of the Early American Theatre From the Beginning to 1916 Complete (1967) — Bidragsgivare — 21 exemplar
The Romantic Friendship Reader: Love Stories Between Men in Victorian America (2003) — Bidragsgivare — 16 exemplar
Representative American Short Stories — Bidragsgivare — 5 exemplar
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- Howells, John Mead (son)
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- American Academy of Arts and Letters (president and member)
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- This is the author page for the American diplomat, novelist and critic. For the anthropologist, please see William Howells.
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