William Dean Howells: Novels 1875-1886 (LOA #8)
A Foregone Conclusion / Indian Summer / A Modern Instance / The Rise of Silas Lapham
- Hardcover
1217 pages
- Release Date
1 November 1982
Summary
The four novels collected in this Library of America volume are among the classic works from the immensely productive career of America’s most influential man of letters at the turn of the twentieth century. William Dean Howells was a champion of French and Russian realistic writers and a brilliant advocate of the most controversial American writers of his own time.In AForegone Conclusion(1875), a young American painter roams through Europe for years before at last deciding to marry the woman…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780940450042 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0940450046 |
| Author: | William Dean Howells |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 1217 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 1982 |
| Weight: | 753g |
| Dimensions: | 207mm x 131mm x 37mm |
| Series: | Library of America William Dean Howells Edition |
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About The Author
William Dean Howells
William Dean Howells was born in Martins Ferry, Ohio, on March 1, 1837. Between 1856 and 1861 he worked as a reporter for the Ohio State Journal. His campaign biography of Abraham Lincoln, compiled in 1860, led to a consulship at Venice from 1861 to 1865. In 1871 he became editor-in-chief of the Atlantic Magazine, where worked with many young writers, among them Mark Twain and Henry James, both of whom became close friends. His position as critic, writer, and enthusiastic exponent of the new realism earned William Dean Howells the respected title of Dean of American Letters. He died in 1920.Edwin H. Cady, volume editor, is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, atDuke University. He has written extensively on American literature and cultural history and is an editor ofAmerican Literatureand ofA Selected Edition of W.D. Howells, published by the Indiana University Press.
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