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  • William Dean Howells: 27 Novels in One Volume (Illustrated)

    Enriched edition. The Rise of Silas Lapham, A Traveler from Altruria, Through the Eye of the Needle & many more

    by William Dean Howells, Devin Shields ...
    William Dean Howells: 27 Novels in One Volume (Illustrated) is a comprehensive collection of the works of William Dean Howells, a prominent figure in 19th century American literature. This anthology showcases Howells' diverse literary style, ranging from realistic portrayals of everyday life to social commentary on the changing society of his time. With a keen eye for detail and a sharp wit, ... Read more

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  • The Complete Works of William Dean Howells (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. 27 Novels & 40+ Short Stories, Including Plays, Poems, Travel Sketches, Historical Works & Autobiography (Illustrated)

    by William Dean Howells, Perrin Norley ...
    The Complete Works of William Dean Howells gathers the fiction, essays, criticism, travel writing, and social observation of the writer often called the "Dean of American Letters." Across works such as The Rise of Silas Lapham, A Modern Instance, and Indian Summer, Howells refines a prose of moral exactness, conversational subtlety, and democratic realism. His literary project stands at the center ... Read more

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  • The Complete Travel Books of William Dean Howells (Illustrated) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. An American Realist Abroad: Travel Memoirs from Venice, Rome, Spain, Switzerland, and England

    by William Dean Howells, Perrin Norley ...
    The Complete Travel Books of William Dean Howells (Illustrated) gathers the author's travel writings into a richly observant panorama of nineteenth-century movement, encounter, and cultural comparison. Blending memoir, social commentary, and descriptive essay, Howells writes with the lucid restraint and moral attentiveness associated with American realism. His landscapes, cities, customs, and ... Read more

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  • The Ultimate Christmas Collection: 150+ authors & 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends

    by Louisa May Alcott, James Allen, Hans Christian Andersen, L. Frank Baum, William Blake, Anne Brontë, Willa Cather, Anton Chekhov, G. K. Chesterton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, F. Marion Crawford, Emily Dickinson, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry Van Dyke, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nikolai Gogol, The Brothers Grimm, Kenneth Grahame, Thomas Hardy, Frances Ridley Havergal, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Felicia Hemans, O. Henry, Oliver Herford, E. T. A. Hoffmann, William Dean Howells, Ben Jonson, Washington Irving, John Keble, James Joyce, Rudyard Kipling, Selma Lagerlöf, Winifred Kirkland, Andrew Lang, Stephen Leacock, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, H. P. Lovecraft, George MacDonald, Charles Mackay, William Topaz McGonagall, Alice Duer Miller, Emily Huntington Miller, Olive Thorne Miller, John Milton, S. Weir Mitchell, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Clement C. Moore, William Morris, Mary Noailles Murfree, John Mason Neale, Thomas Nelson Page, Elia W. Peattie, Marjorie Pickthall, Beatrix Potter, Katharine Pyle, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Mary Darby Robinson, Christina Rossetti, Damon Runyon, Saki, Walter Scott, Edmund Hamilton Sears, William Shakespeare, Nora Archibald Smith, Robert Southwell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frank Stockton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Algernon Charles Swinburne, John Addington Symonds, John Banister Tabb, Booth Tarkington, Nahum Tate, Sara Teasdale, Lord Alfred Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray, Edward Thring, Henry Timrod, Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Tusser, Mark Twain, Katharine Tynan, Henry Vaughan, Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Lucy Wheelock, John G. Whittier, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Oscar Wilde, John Strange Winter, George Wither, William Wordsworth, William Butler Yeats, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, George Orwell, Agatha Christie, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H.P. Lovecraft, Virginia Woolf, Edgar Allan Poe ...
    If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, ... Read more

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  • William Dean Howells: 27 Novels in One Volume (Illustrated)

    Enriched edition. The Rise of Silas Lapham, A Traveler from Altruria, Through the Eye of the Needle & many more

    by William Dean Howells, Basil Cunningham ...
    In "William Dean Howells: 27 Novels in One Volume (Illustrated)", readers are invited to explore the vast landscape of American literature through Howells' keen observation and nuanced storytelling. His literary style, characterized by a blend of realism and social critique, captures the complexities of American life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This comprehensive collection allows ... Read more

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  • William Dean Howells: 27 Novels in One Volume (Illustrated)

    Enriched edition. The Rise of Silas Lapham, A Traveler from Altruria, Through the Eye of the Needle & many more

    by William Dean Howells, Kenneth Gale ...
    In "William Dean Howells: 27 Novels in One Volume (Illustrated)", readers are invited into the intricate tapestry of American life as depicted through Howells's keen pen. This comprehensive collection encapsulates the author's signature literary realism, characterized by a focus on the nuanced social dynamics of late 19th-century America. Richly illustrated, the volume not only showcases Howells's ... Read more

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  • William Dean Howells – The Complete Collection

    by William Dean Howells ...
    82 Complete Works of William Dean HowellsA Belated GuestA Boy's TownA Chance AcquaintanceA Fearful Responsibility and Other StoriesA Foregone ConclusionA Hazard of New FortunesA Likely StoryA Little Swiss SojournA Modern InstanceA Pair of Patient LoversA Psychological Counter-Current in Recent FictionA Traveler from AltruriaAmerican Literary CentersAn Open-Eyed ConspiracyAnnie Kilburn<... ... Read more

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  • The Complete Works of William Dean Howells

    by William Dean Howells ...
    STUDIES HENRY JAMES, JR. The events of Mr. James's life—as we agree to understand events—may be told in a very few words. His race is Irish on his father's side and Scotch on his mOther's, to which mingled strains the generalizer may attribute, if he likes, that union of vivid expression and dispassionate analysis which has characterized his work from the first. There are none of those early ... Read more

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  • The Rise of Silas Lapham

    by William Dean Howells ...
    The classic novel about an ordinary man's ascent into wealthy Boston circles, and its effect on him and his family.Thanks to hard work and good fortune, Silas Lapham succeeds financially in the paint business. But money and class are not the same thing, and the Laphams struggle to feel they truly fit in amid New England's social aristocracy.When they move into a luxurious home in the elite Back ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Complete Works of William Dean Howells

    Enriched edition. 27 Novels & 40+ Short Stories, Including Plays, Poems, Travel Sketches, Historical Works & Autobiography (Illustrated)

    by William Dean Howells, Tristan Oakley ...
    The Complete Works of William Dean Howells serves as an extensive anthology encapsulating the diverse literary contributions of this pivotal figure in American realism. Howells' writing is characterized by a keen observation of contemporary social issues, blending sophisticated narrative styles with a rich dialogue that reflects the complexities of life in late 19th-century America. His work often ... Read more

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  • William Dean Howells: 27 Novels in One Volume (Illustrated) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. The Rise of Silas Lapham, A Traveler from Altruria, Through the Eye of the Needle & many more

    by William Dean Howells, Perrin Norley ...
    William Dean Howells: 27 Novels in One Volume (Illustrated) gathers the broad arc of Howells's fiction, from intimate courtship studies and domestic comedies to searching examinations of class, conscience, commerce, and social obligation. Written in lucid, conversational prose, these novels helped define American literary realism after the Civil War, rejecting melodrama for the pressures of ... Read more

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  • The Rise of Silas Lapham

    by William Dean Howells ...
    Silas Lapham goes from rags to riches, and his ensuing moral susceptibility is the center of this tale. Silas earns a fortune in the paint business, but lacks social standards, a failure which he attempts to remedy through his daughter's marriage to the scion of the aristocratic Corey family. ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook