Short e-books (30min to read) of William Dean Howells

ILLUSTRATIONS "'WILL YOU ANSWER MY QUESTION, AMY?'" _Frontispiece_ "MRS. SOMERS, POURING A CUP OF TEA: 'THAT MAKES IT A LITTLE MORE DIFFICULT'" _Facing page 32_...

ILLUSTRATIONS "WELL, THEN, I SHALL HAVE TO TRUST YOU" _Frontispiece_ "THE SLEEVES ARE A TRIFLE SHORT, MAYBE" _Faces p. 42_ THAT LITTLE SUPPER " 56 EV...

In these times of electrical movement, the sort of construction in the moral world for which ages were once needed, takes place almost simultaneously with the event to be adjusted in history, and a...

W. D. HOWELLS _Bride Roses_ A SCENE _By W. D. Howells_ BOSTON AND NEW YORK _Houghton, Mifflin and Company_ MDCCCC COPYRIGHT, 1893, BY HARPER & BROTHERS COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY W. D. HOWELLS...

THE WRITINGS OF WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Absolutely, so positively, so almost aggressively truthful Account of one's reading is an account of one's life Affections will not be bidden Beginning ...

Transcribed from the 1883 James R. Osgood and Company edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk THE SLEEPING CAR--A FARCE by William D. Howells I. SCENE: One side of a sleeping-c...

It is consoling as often as dismaying to find in what seems a cataclysmal tide of a certain direction a strong drift to the opposite quarter.

AND MRS. WILLIS CAMPBELL_ Mrs. Campbell: "Now this, I think, is the most exciting part of the whole affair, and the pleasantest."

A BELATED GUEST It is doubtful whether the survivor of any order of things finds compensation in the privilege, however undisputed by his contemporaries, of recording his memories of it.

If one has money enough, there seems no reason why one should not go and buy such a horse as he wants.

STACCATO NOTES OF A VANISHED SUMMER Monday afternoon the storm which had been beating up against the southeasterly wind nearly all day thickened, fold upon fold, in the northwest.

LAST DAYS IN A DUTCH HOTEL (1897) When we said that we were going to Scheveningen, in the middle of September, the portier of the hotel at The Hague was sure we should be very cold, perhaps beca...

THE EDITOR'S RELATIONS WITH THE YOUNG CONTRIBUTOR One of the trustiest jokes of the humorous paragrapher is that the editor is in great and constant dread of the young contributor; but neither my...

THE ALBANY DEPOT A FARCE By W. D. Howells NEW YORK HARPER AND BROTHERS 1892 Copyright, 1891, by HARPER & BROTHERS (THE ACTION PASSES IN BOSTON) I. _MR.

The events of Mr. James's life--as we agree to understand events--may be told in a very few words.

AMERICAN LITERARY CENTRES One of the facts which we Americans have a difficulty in making clear to a rather inattentive world outside is that, while we have apparently a literature of our own, we...

SPANISH PRISONERS OF WAR Certain summers ago our cruisers, the St. Louis and the Harvard, arrived at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with sixteen or seventeen hundred Spanish prisoners from Santiago d...

CONFESSIONS OF A SUMMER COLONIST The season is ending in the little summer settlement on the Down East coast where I have been passing the last three months, and with each loath day the sense of ...

ROUNDABOUT TO BOSTON During the four years of my life in Venice the literary intention was present with me at all times and in all places.

THE STANDARD HOUSEHOLD-EFFECT COMPANY My friend came in the other day, before we had left town, and looked round at the appointments of the room in their summer shrouds, and said, with a faint si...

SOME ANOMALIES OF THE SHORT STORY The interesting experiment of one of our great publishing houses in putting out serially several volumes of short stories, with the hope that a courageous persis...