Howells, William Dean 1837-1920

The rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells ( Book )
232 editions published between 1884 and 2010 in 6 languages and held by 3,775 libraries worldwide
A skeptical portrait of American business life and its perils, celebrating not the rise but the loss of fortune that makes possible the hero's recovery of his integrity and happiness.

Novels, 1875-1886 by William Dean Howells ( Book )
13 editions published between 1982 and 1994 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,618 libraries worldwide
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Novels, 1886-1888 by William Dean Howells ( Book )
17 editions published between 1889 and 1997 in English and held by 2,293 libraries worldwide
"Chronologie. Notes.

A hazard of new fortunes by William Dean Howells ( Book )
105 editions published between 1889 and 2009 in English and Romanian and held by 1,743 libraries worldwide
Apartment-hunting is the permanent New York romance, and the broker and his couple the eternal triangle. A man and woman are looking for a place to live, and they call up a broker, and he shows them apartments that are for sale or rent, but the relationship between those three people is much more complicated than the relationship between someone who knows where homes can be found and two people who would like to find one. For one thing, the places are not really his to sell, not really theirs to buy. A tangle of clients and banks, bids and mortgages, co-op boards and co-op skeptics surrounds their relationship. Hypotheque is the French word for mortgage, and a hypothetical air attends every step you take: if you could ... if they would ... if the bank said ... if the board allows.-http://www.loc.gov/catdir.

A modern instance by William Dean Howells ( Book )
88 editions published between 1881 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 1,720 libraries worldwide
Novel about an unhappy marriage.

Literary friends and acquaintance; a personal retrospect of American authorship by William Dean Howells ( Book )
56 editions published between 1900 and 2008 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,528 libraries worldwide
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Indian summer by William Dean Howells ( Book )
69 editions published between 1836 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 1,414 libraries worldwide
"Three American find themselves unexpectedly drawn together in a romantic tale of manners set in nineteenth century Florence."--Cover of paperback ed.

My Mark Twain : reminiscences and criticisms by William Dean Howells ( Book )
29 editions published between 1910 and 2010 in English and held by 1,308 libraries worldwide
Reminiscences of Howells' friendship with Mark Twain, followed by criticism of about a dozen of his major works.

Their wedding journey by William Dean Howells ( Book )
128 editions published between 1871 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 1,267 libraries worldwide
They first met in Boston, but the match was made in Europe, where they afterwards saw each other; whither, indeed, he followed her; and there the match was also broken off. Why it was broken off, and why it was renewed after a lapse of years, is part of quite a long love-story, which I do not think myself qualified to rehearse, distrusting my fitness for a sustained or involved narration; though I am persuaded that a skillful romancer could turn the courtship of Basil and Isabel March to excellent account. Fortunately for me, however, in attempting to tell the reader of the wedding-journey of a newly married couple, no longer very young, to be sure, but still fresh in the light of their love, I shall have nothing to do but to talk of some ordinary traits of American life as these appeared to them, to speak a little of well-known and easily accessible places, to present now a bit of landscape and now a sketch of character. They had agreed to make their wedding-journey in the simplest and quietest way, and as it did not take place at once after their marriage, but some weeks later, it had all the desired charm of privacy from the outset. "How much better," said Isabel, "to go now, when nobody cares whether you go or stay, than to have started off upon a wretched wedding-breakfast, all tears and trousseau, and had people wanting to see you aboard the cars.

A chance acquaintance by William Dean Howells ( Book )
136 editions published between 1873 and 2010 in 4 languages and held by 1,171 libraries worldwide
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