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INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG WORKS OF WILLIAM DEAN HOWELS
Compiled by David Widger
CONTENTS Click on the ## before each title to view a linked table of contents for each of the twelve volumes. Click on the title itself to open the original online file. ## THE KENTONS
## FENNEL AND RUE
## DR. BREEN'S PRACTICE
## THE MARCH FAMILY TRILOGY
## LITERATURE AND LIFE
## APRIL HOPES
## LITERARY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES
## RAGGED LADY
## THE LANDLORD AT LION'S HEAD
## THE WHOLE FAMILY
## VENETIAN LIFE
## LONDON FILMS
## SUBURBAN SKETCHES
## SEVEN ENGLISH CITIES
## THE LEATHERWOOD GOD
## THE ALBANY DEPOT
## THE MINISTER'S CHARGE
## ROMAN HOLIDAYS AND OTHERS
## FAMILIAR SPANISH TRAVELS
## ANNIE KILBURN
## THE LADY OF THE AROOSTOOK
## A FOREGONE CONCLUSION
## MODERN ITALIAN POETS
## A MODERN INSTANCE
## A TRAVELER FROM ALTRURIA
## QUESTIONABLE SHAPES
## THROUGH THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE
## SOUTHERN LIGHTS AND SHADOWS
## STORIES OF OHIO
## BETWEEN THE DARK AND THE DAYLIGHT
## A CHANCE ACQUAINTANCE
## A LITTLE SWISS SOJOURN
## A PAIR OF PATIENT LOVERS
## THE STORY OF A PLAY
## A FEARFUL RESPONSIBILITY
## THE FLIGHT OF PONY BAKER
## THE COAST OF BOHEMIA
## CHRISTMAS EVERY DAY
## BOY LIFE
## A LIKELY STORY
## A BOY'S TOWN
## IMAGINARY INTERVIEWS
## THE DAUGHTER OF THE STORAGE
## THE QUALITY OF MERCY
## A COUNTERFEIT PRESENTMENT
## THE YEARS OF MY YOUTH
## MRS. FARRELL
## MY YEAR IN A LOG CABIN
## THE RISE OF SILAS LAPHAM
EBOOKS WITHOUT TABLES OF CONTENTS
THE WORLD OF CHANCE
MAN OF LETTERS, MAN OF BUSINESS
EMILE ZOLA
THE SLEEPING CAR
AN OPEN-EYED CONSPIRACY
THE GAROTTERS
THE REGISTER
THE ELEVATOR
THE PARLOR-CAR
INDIAN SUMMER
BUYING A HORSE
FIVE O'CLOCK TEA
EVENING DRESS
BRIDE ROSES
THE CONFESSION OF ST. AUGUSTINE
HENRY JAMES, JR.
PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNTER-CURRENT
TABLES OF CONTENTS OF VOLUMES
THE KENTONS
By William Dean Howells
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FENNEL AND RUE
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DR. BREEN'S PRACTICE.
By William Dean Howells
1881
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THE ENTIRE MARCH FAMILY TRILOGY
THEIR WEDDING JOURNEY
A HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNES
THEIR SILVER WEDDING JOURNEY.
By William Dean Howells
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THEIR WEDDING JOURNEY I. THE OUTSET.
II. MIDSUMMER-DAY'S DREAM.
III. THE NIGHT BOAT.
IV. A DAY'S RAILROADING
V. THE ENCHANTED CITY, AND BEYOND.
VI. NIAGARA.
VII. DOWN THE ST. LAWRENCE.
VIII. THE SENTIMENT OF MONTREAL.
IX. QUEBEC.
X. HOMEWARD AND HOME.
XI. NIAGARA REVISITED.
A HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNES
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LITERATURE AND LIFE by William Dean Howells
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BIOGRAPHICAL
THE MAN OF LETTERS AS A MAN OF BUSINESS
I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII IX. X. XI.
CONFESSIONS OF A SUMMER COLONIST
I. II. III. IV
THE EDITOR’S RELATIONS WITH THE YOUNG CONTRIBUTOR
I. II. III. IV. V. VI.
LAST DAYS IN A DUTCH HOTEL
I. II. III IV V. VI. VII. VIII.
SOME ANOMALIES OF THE SHORT STORY
I. II. III. IV. V. VI.
SPANISH PRISONERS OF WAR
I. II. III. IV.
AMERICAN LITERARY CENTRES
I. II. III. IV. V.
THE STANDARD HOUSEHOLD-EFFECT COMPANY
I. II.
STACCATO NOTES OF A VANISHED SUMMER
I. II. III. IV. V.
SHORT STORIES AND ESSAYS
WORRIES OF A WINTER WALK
I. II. III.
SUMMER ISLES OF EDEN
I. II. III. IV.
WILD FLOWERS OF THE ASPHALT
I. II. III. IV
A CIRCUS IN THE SUBURBS
I. II. III. IV.
A SHE HAMLET
I. II. III.
THE MIDNIGHT PLATOON
I. II. III. IV. V.
THE BEACH AT ROCKAWAY
I. II. III. IV. V. VI.
SAWDUST IN THE ARENA
I. II. III.
AT A DIME MUSEUM
I. II.
AMERICAN LITERATURE IN EXILE
I. II.
THE HORSE SHOW
I. II. III. IV.
THE PROBLEM OF THE SUMMER
I. II. III.
AESTHETIC NEW YORK FIFTY-ODD YEARS AGO
I. II.
FROM NEW YORK INTO NEW ENGLAND
I. II. III. IV. V.
THE ART OF THE ADSMITH
I. II. III.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PLAGIARISM
I. II.
PURITANISM IN AMERICAN FICTION
I. II.
THE WHAT AND THE HOW IN ART
I. II. III.
POLITICS OF AMERICAN AUTHORS
I. II. III. IV.
STORAGE
I. II. III. IV
“FLOATING DOWN THE RIVER ON THE O-HI-O”
I. II. III. IV. V. VI.
MY LITERARY PASSIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
I. THE BOOKCASE AT HOME
II. GOLDSMITH
III. CERVANTES
IV. IRVING
V. FIRST FICTION AND DRAMA
VI. LONGFELLOW’S “SPANISH STUDENT”
VII. SCOTT
VIII. LIGHTER FANCIES
IX. POPE
X. VARIOUS PREFERENCES
XI. UNCLE TOM’S CABIN
XII. OSSIAN
XIII. SHAKESPEARE
XIV. IK MARVEL
XV. DICKENS
XVI. WORDSWORTH, LOWELL, CHAUCER
XVII. MACAULAY
XVIII. CRITICS AND REVIEWS
XIX. A NON-LITERARY EPISODE
XX. THACKERAY
XXI. “LAZARILLO DE TORMES”
XXII. CURTIS, LONGFELLOW, SCHLEGEL
XXIII. TENNYSON
XXIV. HEINE
XXV. DE QUINCEY, GOETHE, LONGFELLOW
XXVI. GEORGE ELIOT, HAWTHORNE, GOETHE, HEINE
XXVII. CHARLES READE
XXVIII. DANTE
XXIX. GOLDONI, MANZONI, D’AZEGLIO
XXX. “PASTOR FIDO,” “AMINTA,” “ROMOLA,” “YEAST,” “PAUL FERROLL”
XXXI. ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN, BJORSTJERNE BJORNSON
XXXII. TOURGUENIEF, AUERBACH
XXXIII. CERTAIN PREFERENCES AND EXPERIENCES
XXXIV. VALDES, GALDOS, VERGA, ZOLA, TROLLOPE, HARDY
XXXV. TOLSTOY
CRITICISM AND FICTION
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PG EDITOR’S BOOKMARKS
APRIL HOPES
1887
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LITERARY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES by William Dean Howells
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LITERARY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
MY FIRST VISIT TO NEW ENGLAND
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FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF LITERARY NEW YORK
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ROUNDABOUT TO BOSTON
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LITERARY BOSTON AS I KNEW IT
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OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
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THE WHITE MR. LONGFELLOW
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STUDIES OF LOWELL
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CAMBRIDGE NEIGHBORS
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A BELATED GUEST
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MY MARK TWAIN
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ETEXT EDITOR’S BOOKMARKS
RAGGED LADY.
By William Dean Howells
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THE LANDLORD AT LION'S HEAD
By William Dean Howells
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THE WHOLE FAMILY, A NOVEL BY TWELVE AUTHORS
By William Dean Howells, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Mary Heaton Vorse, Mary Stewart Cutting, Elizabeth Jordan, John Kendrick Bangs, Henry James, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Edith Wyatt, Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, Alice Brown, Henry Van Dyke
CONTENTS
I. THE FATHER, by William Dean Howells
II. THE OLD-MAID AUNT, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
III. THE GRANDMOTHER, by Mary Heaton Vorse
IV. THE DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, by Mary Stewart Cutting
V. THE SCHOOL-GIRL, by Elizabeth Jordan
VI. THE SON-IN-LAW, by John Kendrick Bangs
VII. THE MARRIED SON, by Henry James
VIII. THE MARRIED DAUGHTER, By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
IX. THE MOTHER, by Edith Wyatt
X. THE SCHOOL-BOY, By Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
XI. PEGGY, by Alice Brown
XII. THE FRIEND OF THE FAMILY, by Henry Van Dyke
VENETIAN LIFE By William Dean Howells
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DETAILED CONTENTS. I. Venice in Venice II. Arrival and first Days in Venice III. The Winter in Venice IV. Comincia far Caldo V. Opera and Theatres VI. Venetian Dinners and Diners VII. Housekeeping in Venice VIII. The Balcony on the Grand Canal IX. A Day-Break Ramble X. The Mouse XI. Churches and Pictures XII. Some Islands of the Lagoons XIII. The Armenians XIV. The Ghetto and the Jews of Venice XV. Some Memorable Places XVI. Commerce XVII. Venetian Holidays XVIII. Christmas Holidays XIX. Love-making and Marrying; Baptisms and Burials XX. Venetian Traits and Characters XXI. Society XXII. Our Last Year in Venice Index
LONDON FILMS BY W. D. HOWELLS
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List of Illustrations
Fleet Street and St. Dunstan's Church
The Carriages Drawn up Beside the Sacred Close
Sunday Afternoon, Hyde Park
Rotten Row.
A Block in the Strand.
St. Paul's Cathedral.
Westminster Abbey.
The Horse Guards, Whitehall
Westminster Bridge and Clock Tower.
A House-boat Ox the Thames at Henley.
The Crowd of Sight-seers at Henley
The Tower of London.
St. Olave's, Tooley Street.
London Bridge.
The Ancient Church of St. Magnus.
The East India House of Charles Lamb's Time.
Church of the Dutch Refugees.
Bow-bells (st. Mary-le-bow, Cheapside).
Staple Inn, Holborn.
Clifford's Inn Hall.
Ancient Church of St. Martins-in-the-fields.
Hyde Park in October.
Thames Embankment.
SUBURBAN SKETCHES By William Dean Howells Author Of “Venetian Life,” “Italian Journeys” Etc.
CONTENTS
MRS. JOHNSON
DOORSTEP ACQUAINTANCE
A PEDESTRIAN TOUR.
BY HORSE-CAR TO BOSTON
A DAY'S PLEASURE
A ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE
SCENE
JUBILEE DAYS
SOME LESSONS FROM THE SCHOOL OF MORALS.
FLITTING
Illustrations
“But I Suppose This Wine is Not Made of Grapes, Signor?”
“Looking About, I Saw Two Women.”
“The Young Lady in Black, Who Alighted at a Most Ordinary Little Street.”
“That Sweet Young Blonde, Who Arrives by Most Trains.”
“Frank and Lucy Stalked Ahead, With Shawls Dragging From Their Arms.”
“They Skirmish About Him With Every Sort of Query.”
“A Gaunt Figure of Forlorn and Curious Smartness.”
“The Spectacle As We Beheld It.”
“Vacant and Ceremonious Zeal.”
SEVEN ENGLISH CITIES By W. D. Howells
CONTENTS
A MODEST LIKING FOR LIVERPOOL
SOME MERITS OF MANCHESTER
IN SMOKIEST SHEFFIELD
NINE DAYS’ WONDER IN YORK
TWO YORKISH EPISODES
A DAY AT DONCASTER AND AN HOUR OUT OF DURHAM
THE MOTHER OF THE AMERICAN ATHENS
ABERYSTWYTH, A WELSH WATERING-PLACE
LLANDUDNO, ANOTHER WELSH WATERING-PLACE
GLIMPSES OF ENGLISH CHARACTER
THE LEATHERWOOD GOD By William Dean Howells
CONTENTS
PUBLISHER'S NOTE
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
THE LEATHERWOOD GOD
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Nancy Stood Staring at Her, With Words Beyond Saying In Her Heart—words That Rose in Her Throat and Choked Her
“You Believe, Maybe, That You Would Be Struck Dead if You Said the Things That I Do; But Why Ain't I Struck Dead?”
“It's my Cloth! I Spun It, I Wove It, Every Thread! It's All We've Got for Our Clothes This Winter!”
“Now You Can See How It Feels to Have Your Own Husband Slap You.”
She Had Begun to Wash his Wound, Very Gently, Though She Spoke So Roughly, While he Murmured With the Pain and With The Comfort Of The Pain
They Swarmed Forward to the Altar-place and Flung Themselves on the Ground, and Heaped The Pulpit-steps With Their Bodies
“And he Went Down Ag'in, and when He Come up Ag'in, His Face Was All Soakin' Wet, Like He'd Been Crying Under the Water”
THE ALBANY DEPOT A FARCE
By W. D. Howells (THE ACTION PASSES IN BOSTON)
I. MR. AND MRS. EDWARD ROBERTS; THE CHOREWOMAN
II. ROBERTS AND WILLIS CAMPBELL
III. THE McILHENYS, ROBERTS, AND CAMPBELL
IV. ROBERTS AND CAMPBELL
V. MRS. ROBERTS, MRS. CAMPBELL, ROBERTS, AND CAMPBELL; THEN THE COOK AND McILHENY
THE MINISTER'S CHARGE OR, THE APPRENTICESHIP OF LEMUEL BARKER
By William Dean Howells
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THE MINISTER'S CHARGE;
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ROMAN HOLIDAYS
AND OTHERS By W. D. Howells ILLUSTRATED
CONTENTS
ROMAN HOLIDAYS AND OTHERS
I. UP AND DOWN MADEIRA.
II. TWO UP-TOWN BLOCKS INTO SPAIN
III. ASHORE AT GENOA
IV. NAPLES AND HER JOYFUL NOISE
V. POMPEII REVISITED
VI. ROMAN HOLIDAYS
I. HOTELS, PENSIONS, AND APARTMENTS
II. A PRAISE OF NEW ROME
III. THE COLOSSEUM AND THE FORUM
IV. THE ANGLO-AMERICAN NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE SPANISH STEPS
V. AN EFFORT TO BE HONEST WITH ANTIQUITY
VI. PERSONAL RELATIONS WITH THE PAST
VII. CHANCES IN CHURCHES
VIII. A FEW VILLAS
IX. DRAMATIC INCIDENTS
X. SEEING ROME AS ROMANS SEE US
XI. IN AND ABOUT THE VATICAN
XII. SUPERFICIAL OBSERVATIONS AND CONJECTURES
XIII. CASUAL IMPRESSIONS
XIV. TIVOLI AND FRASCATI
XV. A FEW REMAINING MOMENTS
VII. A WEEK AT LEGHORN
VIII. OVER AT PISA
IX. BACK AT GENOA
X. EDEN AFTER THE FALL
ILLUSTRATIONS
01 Glimpse Outside of Modern Rome
02 Funchal Bay
03 Boats and Diving Boys, Funchal
04 Gibraltar from the Bay
05 Gibraltar from the Neutral Ground
06 Daughters of Climate Along the Riviera
07 Typical Monument in the Campo Santo
08 Naples and Her Joyful Noise
09 Out-door Life in Old Naples
10 Up-stairs Street in Old Naples
11 Naples and the Castel St. Elmo from The Mole
12 Excavating at Pompeii
13 the Street of Tombs, Pompeii
14 the Capuchin Church, Rome
15 Glimpse Inside of Imperial Rome
16 Interior of Colosseum from the South
17 the Sacred Way Through The Forum
18 the Roman Forum
19 Spanish Steps
20 Toward the Pincian Hill
21 Sepulchre of Romulus, Forum
22 Trajan's Forum and Column
23 the Rostra in The Forum
24 the Mosaics Under The Capuchin Church
25 Santa Maria Sopra Minerva
26 Church Op Ara Coeli
27 Church of Santa Maggiore
28 Michelangelo's “moses” in San Pietro In Vincoli
29 the Little Stadium With Its Gradines
30 Casino of the Villa Doria and Gardens
31 the Carnival (as It Once Was)
32 the Fountain of Trevi
33 Colonnade and Fountain at St. Peter's
34 Sistine Chapel, Vatican Palace
35 Piazza Del Popolo from the Pincian Hill
36 the Baths of Diocletian
37 Church of St. John Lateran and Lateran Palace
38 Stairway and Fountain, Villa D'este
39 Villa Falconieri, Entrance, Frascati
40 in the Gardens of The Villa Falconieri
41 the Marble Faun
42 Marcus Aurelius With Out-stretched Arm
43 in the Villa Medici
44 the Baths of Caracalla
45 Piazza Victor Emanuel, Leghorn
46 the Canal at Leghorn
47 the Cathedral, Baptistery, and Leaning Tower, Pisa
48 With Almost Any of My Backgrounds
49 Washing in the River, Genoa
50 Realistic Group in the Campo Santo
51 Monaco
52 the Casino, Monte Carlo
FAMILIAR SPANISH TRAVELS
By W. D. Howells
CONTENTS
FAMILIAR SPANISH TRAVELS
I. AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL APPROACHES
II. SAN SEBASTIAN AND BEAUTIFUL BISCAY
III. BURGOS AND THE BITTER COLD OF BURGOS
IV. THE VARIETY OF VALLADOLID
V. PHASES OF MADRID
VI. A NIGHT AND DAY IN TOLEDO
VII. THE GREAT GRIDIRON OF ST. LAWRENCE
VIII. CORDOVA AND THE WAY THERE
IX. FIRST DAYS IN SEVILLE
X. SEVILLIAN ASPECTS AND INCIDENTS
XI. TO AND IN GRANADA
XII. THE SURPRISES OF RONDA
XIII. ALGECIRAS AND TARIFA
ILLUSTRATIONS
01 Puerta Del Sol—gate of the Sun—toledo
02 The Casino, San Sebastian, Looks out Upon The Curving Concha and The Blue Bay
03 The Sea Sweeps Inland in a Circle of Blue, to Form The Entrance To The Harbor, San Sebastian
04 Groups of Women on Their Knees Beating Clothes in the Water
05 The Iron-gray Bulk of The Cathedral Rears Itself from Clustering Walls and Roofs
06 The Tomb of Donna Maria Manuel
07 A Burgos Street
08 A Street Leading to the Cathedral
09 The University of Valladolid
10 Church of San Pablo
11 The House in Which Philip Ii. Was Born
12 The Bull-ring, Madrid
13 Guard-mount in the Plaza de Armas, Royal Palace, Madrid
14 Riches of Gray Roof and White Wall Mark Its Insurpassable Antiquity
15 An Ancient Corner of the City
16 The Bridge Across The Yellow Tagus
17 The Town and Monastery of Escorial
18 The Pantheon of The Kings and Queens Of Spain
19 The Ancient City of Cordova
20 The Bell-tower of The Great Mosque, Cordova
21 Gateway of the Bridge, Cordova
22 In Attitudes of Silent Devotion
23 The Cathedral and Tower of The Giralda
24 Ancient Roman Columns Lifting Aloft the Figures of Hercules and Caesar
25 Gardens of the Alcazar
26 The Court of Flags and Tower Of The Giralda
27 To the Alhambra
28 The Court of The Lions
29 Looking Northwest from the Generalife over Granada
30 Looking Across the New Bridge (300 Feet High) over The Guada-laviar Gorge, Ronda
31 View of Algeciras
ANNIE KILBURN A Novel By W. D. Howells
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THE LADY OF THE AROOSTOOK By William Dean Howells
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A FOREGONE CONCLUSION By William Dean Howells
Fifteenth Edition.
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MODERN ITALIAN POETS ESSAYS AND VERSIONS
By William Dean Howells
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
ARCADIAN SHEPHERDS
GIUSEPPE PARINI
VITTORIO ALFIERI
VINCENZO MONTI AND UGO FOSCOLO
Notes:
ALESSANDRO MANZONI
SILVIO PELLICO, TOMASSO GROSSI, LUIGI CAREER, AND GIOVANNI BERCHET
GIAMBATTISTA NICCOLINI
GIACOMO LEOPARDI
GIUSEPPE GIUSTI
FRANCESCO DALL' ONGARO
GIOVANNI PRATI
ALEARDO ALEARDI
Notes:
GUILIO CARCANO, ARNALDO FUSINATO AND LUIGI MERCANTINI
CONCLUSION
A MODERN INSTANCE By William Dean Howells
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION.
THE SEQUENCE OF MR. HOWELLS'S BOOKS.
A MODERN INSTANCE.
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A TRAVELER FROM ALTRURIA Romance
By W. D. Howells 1908
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A TRAVELER FROM ALTRURIA
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Published May, 1903 CONTENTS.
HIS APPARITION
THE ANGEL OF THE LORD
THOUGH ONE ROSE FROM THE DEAD
THROUGH THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE A Romance With An Introduction
By William Dean Howells
1907
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SOUTHERN LIGHTS AND SHADOWS Harper's Novelettes By Various Edited By William Dean Howells And Henry Mills Alden 1907
CONTENTS
Introduction
The Capture of Andy Proudfoot
The Level of Fortune
Pap Overholt
In the Piny Woods
My Fifth in Mammy
An Incident
A Snipe-Hunt
The Courtship of Colonel Bill
The Balance of Power
STORIES OF OHIO By William Dean Howells
1897
CONTENTS
PREFACE.
STORIES OF OHIO
I THE ICE FOLK AND THE EARTH FOLK.
IIOHIO AS A PART OF FRANCE.
IIIOHIO BECOMES ENGLISH.
IVTHE FORTY YEARS’ WAR FOR THE WEST.
VTHE CAPTIVITY OF JAMES SMITH
VITHE CAPTIVITY OF BOONE AND KENTON.
VIITHE RENEGADES.
VIIITHE WICKEDEST DEED IN OUR HISTORY.
IXTHE TORTURE OF COLONEL CRAWFORD
XTHE ESCAPE OF KNIGHT AND SLOVER.
XITHE INDIAN WARS AND ST, CLAIR’S DEFEAT.
XIITHE INDIAN WARS AND WAYNE’S VICTORY.
XIIIINDIAN FIGHTERS.
XIVLATER CAPTIVITIES.
XVINDIAN HEROES AND SAGES.
XVILIFE IN THE BACKWOODS.
XVIITHE FIRST GREAT SETTLEMENTS.
XVIIITHE STATE OF OHIO IN THE WAR OF 1812.
XIXA FOOLISH MAN, A PHILOSOPHER, AND A FANATIC.
XXWAYS OUT.
XXITHE FIGHT WITH SLAVERY.
XXIITHE CIVIL WAR IN OHIO
XXIII FAMOUS OHIO SOLDIERS
XXIVOHIO STATESMEN
XXVOTHER NOTABLE OHIOANS
XVIINCIDENTS AND CHARACTERISTICS.
ILLUSTRATIONS
Stone Axes
Serpent Mound
Pichawillany, Chief Town of the Miamis
Indians Carry off the Women
Indians Delivering up Captives
Indian War Parties Joining the English
Pioneers
Indian Baptism of James Smith
An Indian Prayer
Daniel Boone Shooting With the Indians
Kenton and Girty
Simon Girty
Massacre of the Christian Indians by The Whites
Execution of Crawford
Knight Escapes
The Defeat of St. Clair
The Escape of Kennan
St. Clair’s Defeat
A White Indian
Wetzel, Indian Fighter
Bearskin Cap on a Ramrod
Brickell Leaves his Indian Father
Alder Returns to his Family
Logan’s Elm
Tecumseh
Tomahawk
Ohio Cabin
Lost in the Woods
Marrieta, Ohio
Admiral Perry on Lake Erie
Aarun Burr and Blennerhassett
Johnny Appleseed
Proclaimed Himself the Lord Jesus Christ
Governor Clinton
Early Railroad
Steamboat Explosion
Indian Evacuation by River
Slavery Issue
John Brown Making Pikes for Slaves
John Morgan Invades Ohio in 1863
Hiding With the Pigs
A Copperhead Walks With General Morgan
Rutherford Hayes
William Tecumseh Sherman
General George A. Custer
James A. Garfield
General Phillip H. Sheridan
Benjamin Harrison
Salmon P. Chase
John Sherman
William Mckinley
Thomas Corwin
Thomas A. Edison
Whitelaw Reid
Harriet Beecher Stowe
George Kennan
BETWEEN THE DARK AND THE DAYLIGHT Romances by W.D. Howells 1907 CONTENTS CHAP.
A Sleep and a Forgetting The Eidolons of Brooks Alford A Memory that Worked Overtime A Case of Metaphantasmia Editha Braybridge’s Offer The Chick of the Easter Egg
ILLUSTRATIONS
Their joint study of her dancing-card did not help them out A lively matron, of as youthful a temperament as the lively girls she brought in her train, burst upon them “She shook her head, and said,... ‘Nobody has been here, except—’” “No burglar could have missed me if he had wanted an easy mark” “‘You shall not say that!’” “She glared at editha. ‘What you got that black on for?’”
A CHANCE ACQUAINTANCE. BY W. D. HOWELLS. 1873. CONTENTS
I. UP THE SAGUENAY. II. MRS. ELLISON'S LITTLE MANEUVRE. III. ON THE WAY BACK TO QUEBEC. IV. MR. ARBUTON'S INSPIRATION. V. MR. ARBUTON MAKES HIMSELF AGREEABLE. VI. A LETTER OF KITTY'S. VII. LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM. VIII. NEXT MORNING. IX. MR. ARBUTON'S INFATUATION. X. MR. ARBUTON SPEAKS. XI. KITTY ANSWERS. XII. THE PICNIC AT CHATEAU-BIGOT. XIII. ORDEAL. XIV. AFTERWARDS.
A LITTLE SWISS SOJOURN BY W. D. HOWELLS ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE 1893 CONTENTS
First Paper Second Paper ILLUSTRATIONS
Tourists at Montreux
Sign of the White Cross Inn
Entrance to Villeneuve
Post-office, Villeneuve
The Castle of Chillon
A Railroad Servant
A Bit of Villeneuve
The Prisoner of Chillon
One of the Fountains
"They helped to make the hay in the marshes"
Cattle at the Fountains
Washing Clothes in the Lake
Flirtation at the Fountains
The Wine-press
Castle of Aigle
The Market at Vevay
The Market, Vevay—A Bargain before the Notary
Germans at Montreux
Church Terrace, Montreux
Tour up the Lake
A PAIR OF PATIENT LOVERS By W. D. Howells CONTENTS
A PAIR OF PATIENT LOVERS THE PURSUIT OF THE PIANO. A DIFFICULT CASE. THE MAGIC OF A VOICE. A CIRCLE IN THE WATER.
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A FEARFUL RESPONSIBILITY AND OTHER STORIES
BY WILLIAM D. HOWELLS CONTENTS.
A Fearful Responsibility At the Sign of the Savage Tonelli's Marriage
THE FLIGHT OF PONY BAKER A Boy’s Town Story
By W.D. HOWELLS
author of
“A BOY’S TOWN” “CHRISTMAS EVERY DAY” ETC.
ILLUSTRATED Contents CHAP. PAGE I Pony’s Mother, and why he had a Right to run off 3 II The Right that Pony had to run off, from the way his Father acted 15 III Jim Leonard’s Hair-breadth Escape 32 IV The Scrape that Jim Leonard got the Boys into 52 V About running away to the Indian Reservation on a Canal-boat, and how the Plan failed 77 VI How the Indians came to the Boy’s Town and Jim Leonard acted the Coward 89 VII How Frank Baker spent the Fourth at Pawpaw Bottom, and saw the Fourth of July Boy 105 VIII How Pony Baker came pretty near running off with a Circus 141 IX How Pony did not quite get off with the Circus 152 X The Adventures that Pony’s cousin, Frank Baker, had with a Pocketful of Money 165 XI How Jim Leonard planned for Pony Baker to run off on a Raft 192 XII How Jim Leonard backed out, and Pony had to give it up 208 Illustrations
“ALL THE FELLOWS CAME ROUND AND ASKED HIM WHAT HE WAS GOING TO DO NOW” Frontispiece
“BEING DRESSED SO WELL WAS ONE OF THE WORST THINGS THAT WAS DONE TO HIM BY HIS MOTHER”4
“‘I’LL LEARN THAT LIMB TO SLEEP IN A COW-BARN!’” 50
“REAL INDIANS, IN BLANKETS, WITH BOWS AND ARROWS” 90
“VERY SMILING-LOOKING” 124
“HE BEGAN BEING COLD AND STIFF WITH HER THE VERY NEXT MORNING” 144
“FRANK BAKER WAS ONE OF THOSE FELLOWS THAT EVERY MOTHER WOULD FEEL HER BOY WAS SAFE WITH” 166
“‘WHY, YOU AIN’T AFRAID, ARE YOU, PONY?’” 204
THE COAST OF BOHEMIA By
W. D. Howells Biographical Edition
1899
TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter
I. XXI. II. XXII. III. XXIII. IV. XXIV. V. XXV. VI. XXVI. VII. XXVII. VIII. XXVIII. IX. XXIX. X. XXX. XI. XXXI. XII. XXXII. XIII. XXXIII. XIV. XXXIV. XV. XXXV. XVI. XXXVI. XVII. XXXVII. XVIII. XXXVIII. XIX. XXXIX. XX.
CHRISTMAS EVERY DAY AND OTHER STORIES TOLD FOR CHILDREN By W. D. Howells CONTENTS CHRISTMAS EVERY DAY 3 TURKEYS TURNING THE TABLES 25 THE PONY ENGINE AND THE PACIFIC EXPRESS 51 THE PUMPKIN-GLORY 71 BUTTERFLYFLUTTERBY AND FLUTTERBYBUTTERFLY 111 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE “Having Bonfires in the Back Yard of the Palace” Frontispiece “The Old Gobbler ‘First Premium’ said They were Going to Turn the Tables Now” 35 Two Little Pumpkin Seeds 75 Took the First Premium at the County Fair 83 “‘Here's that little fool pumpkin,’ said the farmer” 85 “Caught His Trousers on a Shingle-nail, and Stuck” 93 “‘My sakes! it's comin' to life!’” 103 Tail-piece 107 “‘Fix dusters! Make ready! Aim! Dust!’” 121 “The General-in-Chief used to go behind the Church and Cry” 125 “The Young Khan and Khant entered the Kingdom with a Magnificent Retinue” 131 “She was Going to Take the Case into Her own Hands” 135 “The Imam put His Head to the Floor” 139 “They began to scream, ‘Oh, the cow! the cow!’” 143
BOY LIFE STORIES AND READINGS SELECTED FROM THE WORKS OF WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS AND ARRANGED FOR SUPPLEMENTARY READING IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS BY PERCIVAL CHUBB DIRECTOR OF ENGLISH IN THE ETHICAL CULTURE SCHOOL, NEW YORK ILLUSTRATED CONTENTS PAGE Introduction ix I. Adventures in a Boy's Town HOW PONY BAKER CAME PRETTY NEAR RUNNING OFF WITH A CIRCUS 3 THE CIRCUS MAGICIAN 13 JIM LEONARD'S HAIR-BREADTH ESCAPE 23 II. Life in a Boy's Town THE TOWN 41 EARLIEST MEMORIES 45 HOME LIFE 47 THE RIVER 51 SWIMMING 55 SKATING 61 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS 64 GIRLS 68 MOTHERS 69 A BROTHER 73 A FRIEND 79 III. Games and Pastimes MARBLES 89 RACES 91 A MEAN TRICK 93 TOPS 96 KITES 98 THE BUTLER GUARDS 103 PETS 108 INDIANS 124 GUNS 129 NUTTING 138 THE FIRE-ENGINES 145 IV. Glimpses of the Larger World THE TRAVELLING CIRCUS 151 PASSING SHOWS 163 THE THEATRE COMES TO TOWN 168 THE WORLD OPENED BY BOOKS 171 V. The Last of a Boy's Town 183 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE KITE-TIME Frontispiece HE BEGAN BEING COLD AND STIFF WITH HER THE VERY NEXT MORNING 5 THE FIRST LOCK 43 THE BUTLER GUARDS 105 ALL AT ONCE THERE THE INDIANS WERE 127 NUTTING 141
A LIKELY STORY
Farce
BY W. D. HOWELLS
ILLUSTRATED CONTENTS Page MR. AND MRS. WILLIS CAMPBELL 7 MR. WELLING; MR. CAMPBELL 29 MRS. CAMPBELL; MR. WELLING; MR. CAMPBELL 34 JANE; MRS. CAMPBELL; WELLING; CAMPBELL 39 MRS. CAMPBELL; WELLING; CAMPBELL 41 JANE; MRS. CAMPBELL; WELLING; CAMPBELL 43 MRS. CAMPBELL; WELLING; CAMPBELL 44 MISS RICE, MISS GREENWAY, and the OTHERS 48 MISS GREENWAY; MR. WELLING 50 MISS RICE; then MR. and MRS. CAMPBELL, and the OTHERS 53 ILLUSTRATIONS "THE MOST EXCITING PART OF IT" Frontispiece MR. WELLING EXPLAINS Facing page 52
A BOY'S TOWN DESCRIBED FOR "HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE" BY W. D. HOWELLS CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I. Earliest Experiences 1 II. Home and Kindred 10 III. The River 24 IV. The Canal and its Basin 36 V. The Hydraulic and its Reservoirs.—Old River 45 VI. Schools and Teachers 53 VII. Manners and Customs 67 VIII. Plays and Pastimes 80 IX. Circuses and Shows 93 X. Highdays and Holidays 110 XI. Musters and Elections 121 XII. Pets 133 XIII. Guns and Gunning 148 XIV. Foraging 161 XV. My Boy 171 XVI. Other Boys 183 XVII. Fantasies and Superstitions 197 XVIII. The Nature of Boys 205 XIX. The Town Itself 215 XX. Traits and Characters 228 XXI. Last Days 237 ILLUSTRATIONS. "ONE DAY HE CAME UP TO MY BOY WHERE HE SAT FISHING" Frontispiece. THE "FIRST LOCK" Facing p. 2 "THE PASSENGER IS A ONE-LEGGED MAN" " 8 "RUN, RUN! THE CONSTABLE WILL CATCH YOU!" " 18 "HE TOLD THEM THAT HE HAD GOT THEM NOW" " 44 "THAT HONOR WAS RESERVED FOR MEN OF THE KIND I HAVE MENTIONED" " 50 "A CITIZEN'S CHARACTER FOR CLEVERNESS OR MEANNESS WAS FIXED BY HIS WALKING ROUND OR OVER THE RINGS" " 82 KITE TIME " 92 "THE BOYS BEGAN TO CELEBRATE IT WITH GUNS AND PISTOLS" " 110 THE "BUTLER GUARDS" " 122 "ALL AT ONCE THERE THE INDIANS WERE" " 150 FORAGING " 168 "THE BEACON OF DEATH " " 180 "HE ALWAYS RAN BY THE PLACE AS FAST AS HE COULD" " 198 "THE ARTIST SEEMED SATISFIED HIMSELF" " 220 "MY BOY REMEMBERS COMING FROM CINCINNATI IN THE STAGE" " 224
IMAGINARY INTERVIEWS BY W.D. HOWELLS 1910 CONTENTS IMAGINARY INTERVIEWS The Restoration of the Easy Chair by Way of Introduction A Year of Spring and a Life of Youth Sclerosis of the Tastes The Practices and Precepts of Vaudeville Intimations of Italian Opera The Superiority of Our Inferiors Unimportance of Women in Republics Having Just Got Home New York To the Home-comer's Eye Cheapness of the Costliest City on Earth Ways and Means of Living in New York The Quality of Boston and the Quantity of New York The Whirl of Life in Our First Circles The Magazine Muse Comparative Luxuries of Travel Qualities Without Defects A Wasted Opportunity A Niece's Literary Advice To Her Uncle A Search for Celebrity Practical Immortality on Earth Around a Rainy-day Fire The Advantages of Quotational Criticism Reading for a Grandfather Some Moments With the Muse A Normal Hero and Heroine Out of Work OTHER ESSAYS Autumn in the Country and City Personal and Epistolary Addresses Dressing for Hotel Dinner The Counsel of Literary Age to Literary Youth The Unsatisfactoriness of Unfriendly Criticism The Fickleness of Age The Renewal of Inspiration The Summer Sojourn of Florindo and Lindora To Have the Honor of Meeting A Day at Bronx Park ILLUSTRATIONS
AT THE OPERA
FIFTH AVENUE AT THIRTY-FOURTH STREET
FIFTH AVENUE FROM THE TOP OF A MOTOR-BUS
CHARLES EMBANKMENT, BELOW HARVARD BRIDGE
THE MALL, CENTRAL PARK
BROADWAY AT NIGHT
ELECTION-NIGHT CROWDS
ZOÖLOGICAL GARDENS, BRONX PARK
THE DAUGHTER OF THE STORAGE WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS THE DAUGHTER OF THE STORAGE AND OTHER THINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE
W. D. HOWELLS
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON CONTENTS PAGE I The Daughter of the Storage 3 II A Presentiment 45 III Captain Dunlevy's Last Trip 67 IV The Return to Favor 81 V Somebody's Mother 93 VI The Face at the Window 107 VII An Experience 117 VIII The Boarders 127 IX Breakfast Is My Best Meal 141 X The Mother-Bird 151 XI The Amigo 161 XII Black Cross Farm 173 XIII The Critical Bookstore 185 XIV A Feast of Reason 227 XV City and Country in the Fall 243 XVI Table Talk 253 XVII The Escapade of a Grandfather 269 XVIII Self-Sacrifice: A Farce-tragedy 285 XIX The Night before Christmas 319
THE QUALITY OF MERCY A NOVEL BY W. D. HOWELLS 1892 CONTENTS
PART FIRST.
I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. XIV. XV. XVI. XVII. XVIII. XIX. XX. XXI. XXII. XXIII. XXIV.
PART SECOND.
I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. XIV. XV. XVI. XVII. XVIII. XIX. XX. XXI.
PART THIRD.
I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI.
BY WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS. BY CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER. BY CONSTANCE F. WOOLSON. BY MARY E. WILKINS. BY LEW. WALLACE
A COUNTERFEIT PRESENTMENT
AND THE PARLOUR CAR
BY
WILLIAM D. HOWELLS CONTENTS PAGE I. An Extraordinary Resemblance, 7 II. Distinctions and Differences, 61 III. Dissolving Views, 99 IV. Not at All Like, 141
THE PARLOUR CAR, a Farce, 191
YEARS OF MY YOUTH
BY W. D. HOWELLS
WITH INTRODUCTION AND ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN EXPRESSLY FOR THIS BOOK BY CLIFTON JOHNSON
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The waterside at Martin's Ferry
Frontispiece
The Ohio River at Wheeling, West Virginia
Facing p. 10
Hamilton, Ohio, the "Boy's Town" of Mr. Howells's youth
" 16
The Miami Canal at Hamilton
" 22
The now abandoned canal at Dayton as it appears on the borders of the city
" 40
The Little Miami River at Eureka Mills, twelve miles east of Dayton
" 44
Overlooking the island which the Howells family cultivated
" 54
The vicinity where Mr. Howells lived his "Year in a Log Cabin"
" 60
One of the last log houses to survive in the vicinity of Jefferson
" 82
The four-story office erected by Mr. Howells's father
" 116
The Ohio State House at Columbus viewed from High Street
" 138
The State House yard on the State Street side
" 158
Old-time dwellings on one of the Columbus streets that Mr. Howells used to frequent
" 170
The Medical College at Columbus
" 184
The quaint doorway of the Medical College through which Mr. Howells passed daily while he roomed in the building
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Looking into the State House grounds toward the broad flight of steps before the west front of the building
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MRS. FARRELL
A NOVEL BY
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
With an Introduction by Mildred Howells
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MY YEAR IN A LOG CABIN
BY W. D. HOWELLS A BIT OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ILLUSTRATED I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII.
THE RISE OF SILAS LAPHAM
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ITALIAN JOURNEYS By W.D. Howells 1867 and 1895
CONTENTS
THE ROAD TO ROME FROM VENICE.
I.—LEAVING VENICE.
II.—FROM PADUA TO FERRARA.
III.—THE PICTURESQUE, THE IMPROBABLE, AND THE PATHETIC IN FERRARA.
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IV.—THROUGH BOLOGNA TO GENOA.
V.—UP AND DOWN GENOA.
VI.—BY SEA FROM GENOA TO NAPLES.
VII.—CERTAIN THINGS IN NAPLES.
VIII.—A DAY IN POMPEII.
IX.—A HALF-HOUR AT HERCULANEUM.
X.—CAPRI AND CAPRIOTES.
XI.—THE PROTESTANT RAGGED SCHOOLS AT NAPLES.
XII.—BETWEEN ROME AND NAPLES.
XIII.—ROMAN PEARLS.
FORZA MAGGIORE.
AT PADUA
A PILGRIMAGE TO PETRARCH'S HOUSE AT ARQUÀ.
A VISIT TO THE CIMBRI.
MINOR TRAVELS.
I.—PISA.
II.—THE FERRARA ROAD.
III.—TRIESTE.
IV.—BASSANO.
V.—POSSAGNO, CANOVA'S BIRTHPLACE.
VI.—COMO.
STOPPING AT VICENZA, VERONA, AND PARMA.
DUCAL MANTUA.