Author
William Dean Howells
1837–1920 5 volumes Literary Classics
The life
William Dean Howells was an American novelist and, as editor of The Atlantic Monthly and columnist for Harper's, the most powerful literary broker in the country — he championed Twain, James, Crane and Dunbar. Largely self-taught, he set type in his father's Ohio print shop as a boy. He risked his standing to defend the Haymarket anarchists, and called himself a socialist thereafter.
Where to start
The Kentons
232 pages — the shortest way into Howells, not the greatest.
The Kentons were not rich, but they were certainly richer than the average in the pleasant county town of the Middle West, where they had spent nearly their whole married life.
Paintings from these volumes
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