Literature and Life
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Literature and Life

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  1. 560 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Literature and Life

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About this book

Writer and editor William Dean Howells was a towering figure in American literature. As a novelist, journalist and critic, he helped shape the American literary sensibility. This collection brings together some of Howells' best-known essays, sketches and reports.

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Information

Publisher
The Floating Press
Year
2017
eBook ISBN
9781776675982
Edition
0
Topic
Literature
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Title
  2. Contents
  3. Bibliographical
  4. The Man of Letters as a Man of Business
  5. Confessions of a Summer Colonist
  6. The Editor's Relations with the Young Contributor
  7. Last Days in a Dutch Hotel
  8. Some Anomalies of the Short Story
  9. Spanish Prisoners of War
  10. American Literary Centres
  11. The Standard Household-Effect Company
  12. Staccato Notes of a Vanished Summer
  13. LITERATURE AND LIFE—SHORT STORIES AND ESSAYS
  14. Worries of a Winter Walk
  15. Summer Isles of Eden
  16. Wild Flowers of the Asphalt
  17. A Circus in the Suburbs
  18. A She Hamlet
  19. The Midnight Platoon
  20. The Beach at Rockaway
  21. Sawdust in the Arena
  22. At a Dime Museum
  23. American Literature in Exile
  24. The Horse Show
  25. The Problem of the Summer
  26. Aesthetic New York Fifty-Odd Years Ago
  27. From New York into New England
  28. The Art of the Adsmith
  29. The Psychology of Plagiarism
  30. Puritanism in American Fiction
  31. The What and the How in Art
  32. Politics of American Authors
  33. Storage
  34. "Floating down the River on the O-Hi-O"
  35. MY LITERARY PASSIONS
  36. Bibliographical
  37. I - The Bookcase at Home
  38. II - Goldsmith
  39. III - Cervantes
  40. IV - Irving
  41. V - First Fiction and Drama
  42. VI - Longfellow's "Spanish Student"
  43. VII - Scott
  44. VIII - Lighter Fancies
  45. IX - Pope
  46. X - Various Preferences
  47. XI - Uncle Tom's Cabin
  48. XII - Ossian
  49. XIII - Shakespeare
  50. XIV - Ik Marvel
  51. XV - Dickens
  52. XVI - Wordsworth, Lowell, Chaucer
  53. XVII - Macaulay
  54. XVIII - Critics and Reviews
  55. XIX - A Non-Literary Episode
  56. XX - Thackeray
  57. XXI - "Lazarillo de Tormes"
  58. XXII - Curtis, Longfellow, Schlegel
  59. XXIII - Tennyson
  60. XXIV - Heine
  61. XXV - De Quincey, Goethe, Longfellow
  62. XXVI - George Eliot, Hawthorne, Goethe, Heine
  63. XXVII - Charles Reade
  64. XXVIII - Dante
  65. XXIX - Goldoni, Manzoni, D'Azeglio
  66. XXX - "Pastor Fido," "Aminta," "Romola," "Yeast," "Paul Ferroll"
  67. XXXI - Erckmann-Chatrian, Bjorstjerne Bjornson
  68. XXXII - Tourguenief, Auerbach
  69. XXXIII - Certain Preferences and Experiences
  70. XXXIV - Valdes, Galdos, Verga, Zola, Trollope, Hardy
  71. XXXV - Tolstoy
  72. Criticism and Fiction