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William Dean Howells
Author Code: AWDH
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Born: Mar. 1, 1837 - Martins Ferry, Ohio, USA Died: May 11, 1920 - New York City, New York, USA
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Howells began his career as a typesetter and reporter in Ohio and contributed poetry to the Atlantic Monthly. His biography of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 was rewarded on Lincoln's election with a consulship at Venice, Italy (1861-1865). His Venetian Life (1866) and Italian Journeys (1867) are reflections on his time spent there. He became assistant editor of the Atlantic Monthly from 1866 to 1871 and, thereafter, editor from 1871 to 1881. From 1886 to 1891 he was associate editor of Harper's Magazine and was also a contributor on literary subjects. His greatest work is The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885), and other important works include Their Wedding Journey (1872), A Chance Acquaintance (1873), A Foregone Conclusion (1875), The Undiscovered Country (1880), Indian Summer (1885) and A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890). Howells published numerous poems, essays and contributory articles and was an adviser to Mark Twain and Henry James, being one of the first to recognize their great talent. |
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AWDH022 |
The Albany Depot [Play]
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1892 |
21 |
232k |
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AWDH013 |
Annie Kilburn
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1889 |
137 |
666k |
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AWDH033 |
April Hopes
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1887 |
214 |
874k |
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AWDH027 |
Between the Dark and the Daylight
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Braybridge's Offer
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A Case of Metaphantasmia
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The Chick of the Easter Egg
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Editha
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The Eidolons of Brooks Alford
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A Memory That Worked Overtime
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A Sleep and A Forgetting
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1907 |
79 |
464k |
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AWDH038 |
Buying a Horse
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1879 |
10 |
177k |
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AWDH031 |
A Chance Acquaintance
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1873 |
89 |
533k |
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AWDH029 |
Christmas Every Day & Other Stories Told for Children
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1892 |
32 |
264k |
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AWDH030 |
The Coast of Bohemia
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1893 |
121 |
604k |
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AWDH024 |
Criticism and Fiction
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1891 |
47 |
319k |
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AWDH009 |
Dr. Breen's Practice
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1881 |
100 |
499k |
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AWDH040 |
The Elevator [Play]
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1911 |
31 |
221k |
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AWDH003 |
Emile Zola
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1902 |
9 |
164k |
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AWDH034 |
Familiar Spanish Travels
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1913 |
121 |
708k |
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AWDH023 |
A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories
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A Fearful Responsibility
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At the Sign of the Savage
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Tonelli's Marriage
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1881 |
86 |
500k |
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AWDH006 |
Fennel and Rue
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1908 |
72 |
393k |
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AWDH011 |
A Foregone Conclusion
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1875 |
101 |
548k |
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AWDH020 |
The Garotters [Play]
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1886 |
30 |
258k |
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AWDH019 |
A Hazard of New Fortunes
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1889 |
267 |
1179k |
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AWDH004 |
Henry James Jr.
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1911 |
6 |
171k |
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AWDH005 |
Indian Summer
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1886 |
175 |
794k |
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AWDH039 |
Italian Journeys
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At Padua
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Ducal Mantua
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Forza Maggiore
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Minor Travels
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A Pilgrimage to Petrarch's House at Arqua
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The Road to Rome from Venice
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Stopping at Vicenza, Verona, and Parma
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A Visit to the Cimbri
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1867 |
135 |
716k |
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AWDH007 |
The Kentons
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1902 |
134 |
636k |
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AWDH010 |
The Lady of the Aroostook
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1879 |
133 |
638k |
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AWDH014 |
The Landlord at Lion's Head
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1909 |
207 |
886k |
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AWDH012 |
The Leatherwood God
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1916 |
94 |
483k |
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AWDH037 |
Literary Friends and Acquaintances
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A Belated Guest
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Cambridge Neighbors
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First Impressions of Literary New York
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Literary Boston as I Knew it
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My First Visit to New England
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My Mark Twain
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Roundabout to Boston
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Studies of Lowell
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The White Mr. Longfellow
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1900 |
149 |
778k |
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AWDH017 |
The Minister's Charge
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1887 |
193 |
890k |
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AWDH032 |
A Modern Instance
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1881 |
255 |
1138k |
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AWDH025 |
My Literary Passions
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The Bookcase at Home
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Certain Preferences and Experiences
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Cervantes
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Charles Reade
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Critics and Reviews
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Curtis, Longfellow, Schlegel
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Dante
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De Quincey, Goethe, Longfellow
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Dickens
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Erckmann-Chatrian, Bjorstjerne Bjornson
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First Fiction and Drama
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George Eliot, Hawthorne, Goethe, Heine
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Goldoni, Manzoni, D'azeglio
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Goldsmith
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Heine
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Ik Marvel
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Irving
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"Lazarillo De Tormes"
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Lighter Fancies
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Longfellow's "Spanish Student"
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Macaulay
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A Non-literary Episode
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Ossian
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"Pastor Fido," "Aminta," "Romola," "Yeast," "Paul Ferroll"
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Pope
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Scott
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Shakespeare
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Tennyson
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Thackeray
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Tolstoy
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Tourguenief, Auerbach
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Valdes, Galdos, Verga, Zola, Trollope, Hardy
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Various Preferences
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Wordsworth, Lowell, Chaucer
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1895 |
80 |
482k |
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AWDH002 |
An Open-Eyed Conspiracy
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1898 |
66 |
526k |
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AWDH015 |
Ragged Lady
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1899 |
156 |
700k |
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AWDH008 |
The Register
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1884 |
24 |
244k |
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AWDH001 |
The Rise of Silas Lapham
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1885 |
219 |
1677k |
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AWDH021 |
The Sleeping-Car [Play]
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1892 |
23 |
241k |
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AWDH028 |
Suburban Sketches
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By Horse-Car to Boston
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A Day's Pleasure
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Doorstep Acquaintance
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Flitting
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Jubilee Days
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Mrs. Johnson
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A Pedestrian Tour
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A Romance of Real Life
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Scene
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Some Lessons from the School of Morals
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1871 |
83 |
542k |
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AWDH016 |
Their Silver Wedding Journey
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1899 |
246 |
1082k |
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AWDH018 |
Their Wedding Journey
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1871 |
97 |
593k |
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AWDH036 |
Though One Rose From the Dead
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1903 |
18 |
195k |
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AWDH026 |
Through the Eye of the Needle
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1907 |
103 |
579k |
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AWDH035 |
Venetian Life
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1866 |
144 |
818k |
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