William Dean Howells, the realist master known as “The Dean of American Letters”, produced an enormous oeuvre of works that had a lasting influence on American literature. For the first time in publishing history, this comprehensive eBook presents Howells’ complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2)
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Howells’ life and works
* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts
* All 42 novels, with individual contents tables
* Many rare novels available in no other collection
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry and the short stories
* Easily locate the poems or short stories you want to read
* Includes Howells’ complete travel writing, with many rare texts appearing here for the first time in digital print
* Many rare essays and non-fiction works
* Features two autobiographies – discover Howells’ literary life
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
* UPDATED with revised texts, a posthumous novel, a rare non-fiction text and two biographies
CONTENTS:
The Novels
Their Wedding Journey (1872)
A Chance Acquaintance (1873)
A Foregone Conclusion (1875)
The Lady of the Aroostook (1879)
The Undiscovered Country (1880)
A Fearful Responsibility (1881)
Dr. Breen’s Practice (1881)
A Modern Instance (1882)
A Woman’s Reason (1883)
The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885)
Indian Summer (1886)
The Minister’s Charge (1886)
April Hopes (1888)
Annie Kilburn (1889)
A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890)
The Shadow of a Dream (1890)
A Boy’s Town (1890)
The Quality of Mercy (1891)
An Imperative Duty (1892)
The World of Chance (1893)
The Coast of Bohemia (1893)
A Traveler from Altruria (1894)
The Day of Their Wedding (1895)
The Landlord at Lion’s Head (1897)
The Story of a Play (1898)
Ragged Lady (1899)
Their Silver Wedding Anniversary (1899)
The Flight of Pony Baker (1902)
The Kentons (1902)
Letters Home (1903)
Letters of an Altrurian Traveller (1904)
The Son of Royal Langbrith (1904)
Miss Bellard’s Inspiration (1905)
Through the Eye of the Needle (1907)
The Whole Family (1908)
Fennel and Rue (1908)
New Leaf Mills (1913)
The Leatherwood God (1916)
The Vacation of the Kelwyns (1920)
Mrs. Farrell (1921)
The Shorter Fiction
Suburban Sketches (1871)
Christmas Every Day (1892)
Stories of Ohio (1897)
A Pair of Patient Lovers and Other Stories (1901)
Literature and Life (1902)
Questionable Shapes (1903)
Editha (1905)
Between the Dark and the Daylight (1907)
Seen and Unseen at Stratford-Upon-Avon (1914)
The Daughter of the Storage and Other Things in Prose and Verse (1916)
Boy Life Stories and Readings Selected from the Works of William Dean Howells (1919)
Miscellaneous Stories
The Farces
The Poetry Collections
Poems (1886)
Stops of Various Quills (1895)
The Poems
List of Poems in Chronological Order
List of Poems in Alphabetical Order
The Travel Writing
The Non-Fiction
The Autobiographies
My Year in a Log Cabin (1893)
Years of My Youth (1916)
The Biographies
William Dean Howells (1889) by Charles Dudley Warner
William Dean Howells (1921) by Carl Van Doren
