William Dean Howells

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Howells wrote several captivating travel books, including Italian Journeys, Venetian Life, and Certain Delightful English Towns. Here, he turns his observant and sometimes critical eye to London, presenting a series of sketches of the city as if they were mental movies.

Howells spent several years in Italy as a diplomat. He wrote a number of timeless books based on his travels there, including Italian Journeys and Venetian Life. A captivating portrait of one of Italy's fabled regions, Tuscan Cities is indispensable reading for travelers and armchair dreamers alike.

This 1910 collection of satiric essays on editors, the publishing industry, music, and culture includes "Sclerosis of the Tastes," "Intimations of Italian Opera," "The Superiority of Our Inferiors," "Unimportance of Women in Republics," "Cheapness of the Costliest City on Earth," "The Magazine Muse," "Qualities Without Defects," and "A Normal Hero and Heroine Out of Work."

This 1895 collection of verse, gorgeously illustrated by Howard Pyle, contains among other poems "The Bewildered Guest," "Midway," "From Generation to Generation," "The Burden," "Reward and Punishment," and "Friends and Foes." After losing his daughter a few years before, Howells proved with this collection that he was not an irrepressible optimist.

Published in two volumes, Howells's studies in the great heroines of nineteenth century English-language fiction make delightful reading. This first volume takes the reader from Fanny Burney's unforgettable Evelina to the Bronte sisters' remarkable Jane and Catherine. Along the way, female protagonists from the works of Edgeworth, Austen, Radcliffe, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, and Thackeray, among others, are closely and keenly observed.

Basil and Isabel March first appeared in Howells's Their Wedding Journey, which followed the newly married couple as they traveled to Niagara Falls on their honeymoon. Here, Howells returns to the March marriage as they revisit Hamburg, Carlsbad, Weimar, Leipzig, and Berlin-the cities of their youthful courtship.

A visitor from a utopian republic encounters a group of Americans-including a novelist, a banker, a lawyer, and a minister-at a fashionable summer resort in this 1894 satirical portrait of American life and government by William Dean Howells. A companion novel, Through the Eye of the Needle, would follow in 1907.

In addition to his eminence as a novelist, William Dean Howells was a prominent figure in the development of the American theater. He wrote the play, A Counterfeit Presentment in 1877. The comedy develops a slightly romantic and dramatic side as it follows the two main characters, Barlett and Cummings.

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