Literature and life : studies / by W.D. Howells

Author:: Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920
Published:: New York ; London : Harper & brothers, [1902]
Copyright Date:: [©1902]
Physical Description:: 3 plates, v-xi, 1 unnumbered page, 322 pages, 1 unnumbered page : frontispiece, plates, portraits ; 22 cm.

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Writings of William Dean Howells. Library edition

Contents:

The man of letters as a man of business.--Worries of a winter talk.--Confessions of a summer colonist.--The editor's relations with the young contributor.-Summer isles of Eden.--Wild flowers of the asphalt.--Last days in in Dutch hotel.--Some anomalies of the short story.-A circus in the suburbs.--A she Hamlet.--Spanish prisoners of war.--The midnight platoon.--The beach at Rockaway.--American literary centres.--Sawdust in the arena.--At a dime museum.--American literature in exile.--The horse show.--The problem of the summer.--Aesthetic New York fifty-odd years ago.--From New York into New England.--The standard household-effect company.--Staccato notes of a vanished summer.--The art of the adsmith.--The psychology of plagiarism.--Puritanism in American fiction.--The what and the how of it.--Politics of American authors.--Storage.--"Floating down the river on the O-hi-o".

Reproduction Note:

Microform. Chicago, Library Resources, 1972. 1 microfiche ; 8 x 13 cm. Reduction ratio varies. (Library of American civilization).

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