William Dean Howells
Centering on a conflict between a self-made millionaire and an idealistic reformer in turn-of-the-twentieth-century New York, One of the most charming and memorable romantic comedies in American literature, William Dean Howells's Indian Summer ... [... more]
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Venetian Life
 Author: William Dean Howells Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 945.3108 EAN: 9780810160859 Edition: Reprint ISBN: 0810160854 Number Of Pages: 317 Publication Date: 2001-02 [... more]
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Beloved Boy: Letters to Hendrik C. Andersen, 1899-1915
More insight into the Epistolary Henry James: Excerpt: When, years ago, I was studying Henry James's letters to Edith Wharton in order to be able to narrate the story of their friendship, I discovered that the James who wrote to this friend was not [... more]
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Penguin Classics Rise Of Silas Lapham
"Boston Paint Tycoon Plots to Gatecrash Elite : Loses Shirt": The photographs of Alfred Stieglitz still look modern and talented today, but it's nearly impossible to imagine how they would have looked to viewers in the 1890s, when they were [... more]
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The Little Big Book of Christmas
Christmas Treasure Trove: I love all of Lena Tabori's "Little Big Books", especially the Valentines and Halloween ones, but this Christmas one is my favorite of all. This book is a "must have" for reading to children during the [... more]
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Bertram Cope's Year
From Amazon.com: First published in 1919, Bertram Cope's Year was released to a deafening silence. Neither critics nor readers reacted with shock to its matter-of-fact depiction of a gay couple and their domestic ménage--perhaps because few of [... more]
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Le Divorce
From Amazon.com: Diane Johnson updates the transatlantic novel so gorgeously rendered by Henry James, Edith Wharton, William Dean Howells, and Nathaniel Hawthorne; evokes the spirit of such expatriates sojourning in Paris as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott [... more]
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The Mouse Trap and Other Farces
Author: William Dean Howells Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9781417941254 ISBN: 1417941251 Number Of Pages: 192 Publication Date: 2004-08 [... more]
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Wisconsin Death Trip
From Amazon.com: The last decade of the 19th century was, for some Americans, a time when great fortunes were to be made. For many others, however, the period was a time of economic dislocation, when the gap between city and countryside, rich and poor, [... more]
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Indian Summer
Summertime in Florence: When you think of chroniclers of love, life and American society during the Gilded Age, you automatically think of Henry James and Edith Wharton. But while W.D. Howells never quite reached their levels of prominence, his similar [... more]
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A Traveler from Altruria
Interesting Utopian Novel: I really enjoyed this book although I thought at the beginning that it was really going to be dreary. I actually read it in a class taught by the editor of the book, David Levy. His insights during class made the book more [... more]
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A Hazard of New Fortunes
Several Sideshows Jell Into A Novel: A usual book review outlines something of the plot, not enough to give everything away, but at least something to catch a potential reader's fancy. I cannot assure you that this book has much of plot---some men come [... more]
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