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Books by William Dean Howells

A Pair of Patient Lovers

By William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells was an American realist author, literary critic, and playwright. Nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters", he was particularly known for his tenure as editor of the Atlantic Monthly as well as his own prolific writings, including the Christmas story "Christmas Every Day", and...

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A Modern Instance

A Hazard of New Fortunes

Of Literature

Annie Kilburn

A Traveler from Altruria

Emile Zola

The Garotters

Last Days in a Dutch Hotel

Modern Italian Poets

A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction

Seven English Cities

Anomalies of the Short Story

London Films

Their Wedding Journey

A Little Swiss Sojourn

An Open-Eyed Conspiracy

A Foregone Conclusion

Confessions of Summer Colonist

The Leatherwood God

A Belated Guest

A Chance Acquaintance

Bride Roses

The Coast of Bohemia

The Lady of the Aroostook

Their Silver Wedding Journey

The Kentons

Studies of Lowell

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Quality of Mercy

Buying a Horse

Dr. Breen's Practice

Henry James, Jr.

The Daughter of the Storage

Literary Boston As I Knew It

Venetian Life

The White Mr. Longfellow

Standard Household-Effect Company

The Man of Letters as a Man of Busine

My Mark Twain

Fennel and Rue

The Ragged Lady

The Story of a Play

The Young Contributor

Evening Dress

Suburban Sketches

Staccato Notes of a Vanished Summer

The Whole Family

Quaint Courtships

The Albany Depot

The Elevator

The Flight of Pony Baker

The Sleeping-Car

Familiar Spanish Travels

April Hopes

Literature and Life

Boy Life

The Landlord at Lions Head

American Literary Centers

Spanish Prisoners of War

Literary Friends and Acquaintance

The Parlor Car

A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories

A Likely Story

The Minister's Charge

The March Family Trilogy

Through the Eye of the Needle

Five O'Clock Tea

Roundabout to Boston

Criticism and Fiction

Christmas Every Day

My Literary Passions

Italian Journeys

Roman Holidays and Others

A Boy's Town

Cambridge Neighbors

Indian Summer

The Rise of Silas Lapham

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