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William Dean Howells : a writer's life

Possibly the most influential figure in the history of American letters, William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was, among other things, a leading novelist in the realist tradition, a formative influence on many of America's finest writers, and an outspoken opponent of social injustice. This biography, the first comprehensive work on Howells in fifty years, enters the consciousness of the man and his times, revealing a complicated and painfully honest figure who came of age in an era of political corruption, industrial greed, and American imperialism. Written with verve and originality in a highly a
eBook, English, c2005
University of California Press, Berkeley, c2005
Biographies
1 online resource (519 p., [16] leaves of plates )
9780520930247, 9781417595907, 9781598755497, 9780520238961, 9786612357206, 9781282357204, 052093024X, 1417595906, 1598755498, 0520238966, 6612357207, 1282357204
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Chronology of Howells' life and work
Parallel lives
Warring ambitions, 1851/1859
Years of decision, 1859/1861
Consul at Venice, 1861/1865
Atlantic years, 1 : 1865/1867
Atlantic years, 2 : 1867/1871
His Mark Twain, from 1869
Fictional lives, 1871/1878
From Venice as far as Belmont, 1878/1882
In England and Italy, 1882/1883
The man of business, 1883/1886
Heartache and horror, 1886/1890
Words and deeds, 1890/1894
Peripatetic, 1895/1899
Kittery Point, 1900/1905
Greater losses, 1906/1910
Reconsiderations, 1911/1917
Eighty years and after, 1918/1920
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