Howells narrates the amazing story of Joseph C. Dylkes, an historical figure of early Ohio, who convinced a backwoods community that he was the living God! The account is enriched with local color and portraits of frontier types.

The Leatherwood God (A Selected Edition of W.D. Howells)

Literature & Fiction

Howells, W.D.

United States

Indiana University Press

An Imperative Duty

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Wentworth Press

Heroines Of Fiction V1 And V2

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Literary

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

The Children's Plutarch: Tales of the Greeks

History

Gould, F.J.

World

Trieste Publishing

Italian Journeys, published in 1867 and written during the four years Howells spent as an American consul in Venice, is more than a lively and entertaining book of travel. It is also a shrewd and perceptive inspection of persons and places European. On every page it interrogates European values while between every line it grapples with problems of American identity.

Italian Journeys (Marlboro Travel)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Marlboro Press

During the 1860s, W.D. Howells was the American consul in Venice. This text is his humorous portrait of the city. He swam in the Grand Canal, dined with the rich and mingled with the humble. Howells tells his story with wit and curiosity.

Venetian Life (Marlboro Travel)

The Early Prose Writings of William Dean Howells, 1852–1861: 1852-1861

Howells, William Dean.

Ohio University Press

Selected Short Stories of William Dean Howells

The short stories of Ohio-born William Dean Howells (1837-1920), the leading figure in American realism, have been largely unknown to the reading public, at least partly because of their general unavailability and because of the difficulties of identifying, among Howells's voluminous short writings, those that are clearly short stories.Selected Short Stories of William Dean Howells includes the full texts of thirteen of Howells's short stories, each preceded by a thorough critical analysis, and an annotated short story list, identifying and discussing all of Howells's short stories.His stories, often in surprisingly comic and fresh ways, explore the slippery nature of perception, the variance between the ethical and the aesthetic points of view, the benefits and hazards of the creative imagination, and the requirements and responsibilities of personal morality.More than his novels or other writings, Howells's late stories reveal his fascination with psychology and his interest in psychic phenomena. These forgotten stories expose a side of Howells unknown even to many Americanists.Conversely, the early stories are invaluable in revealing his development as a writer and his concern, even at an early age, with themes that permeate the entire Howells canon.Taken as a group, this carefully edited selection of short stories provides a complete and manageable overview of the artistic and moral concerns of William Dean Howells and the span and evolution of his contribution to this genre.

The short stories of William Dean Howells have been largely unknown to the reading public, at least partly because of their general unavailability and because of the difficulties of identifying, among Howells's voluminous short writings, those that are clearly short stories. Selected Short Stories of William Dean Howells includes both the full texts of thirteen of Howells's stories, each preceded by a thorough critical analysis, and an annotated short story list identifying and discussing all of Howells's short stories. The book pays particular attention to the period after 1890, when Howells, both for personal and intellectual reasons, moved beyond realism to the fields of psychological realism and psychic romance. More than his novels or other writings, Howells's late stories reveal his fascination with psychology and his interest in psychic phenomena, especially those that seem to shed light on the question of immortality. These forgotten stories expose a side of Howells unknown to many Americanists.

For William Dean Howells, the 1880s throbbed with literary warfare over theory and criticism (realism), and social justice. But the terrible climax was more personal and came in the death of his daughter in 1889. The blow altered him radically. Among other changes, a poetry new to him emerged, a poetry in the modern tradition. This “new” poetry is available now as never before in Pebbles, Monochromes, and Other Modern Poems, 1891-1916. It is metaphysical, agnostic, and ironic with a modernist voice. Praised at the century's start by figures as notable as Stephen Crane, Henry and William James, W. E. B. DuBois, and Hamlin Garland, Howells arises again at the turn of the next century, hailed by the likes of John Updike and Gore Vidal. This rich cache of modern poems by W. D. Howells, lost for so long, is now made accessible under the editorial eye of Edwin Cady. Its significance is central to the understanding of the literary history and culture that defined the modern era and to the progeny that grew from that fertile soil.

Pebbles, Monochromes and Other Modern Poems, 1891–1916

Poetry

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The Leatherwood God (A Selected Edition of W.D. Howells)

An Imperative Duty

Heroines Of Fiction V1 And V2

The Children's Plutarch: Tales of the Greeks

Italian Journeys (Marlboro Travel)

Venetian Life (Marlboro Travel)

The Early Prose Writings of William Dean Howells, 1852–1861: 1852-1861

Selected Short Stories of William Dean Howells

Selected Short Stories of William Dean Howells

Pebbles, Monochromes and Other Modern Poems, 1891–1916