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William Dean Howells : a writer's life /

Possibly the most influential figure in the history of American letters, William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was, among other things, a leading novelist in the realist tradition, a formative influence on many of America's finest writers, and an outspoken opponent of social injustice. This biograph...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Goodman, Susan, 1951-
Otros Autores: Dawson, Carl
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chronology of Howells' life and work
  • Parallel lives
  • Warring ambitions, 1851/1859
  • Years of decision, 1859/1861
  • Consul at Venice, 1861/1865
  • Atlantic years, 1 : 1865/1867
  • Atlantic years, 2 : 1867/1871
  • His Mark Twain, from 1869
  • Fictional lives, 1871/1878
  • From Venice as far as Belmont, 1878/1882
  • In England and Italy, 1882/1883
  • The man of business, 1883/1886
  • Heartache and horror, 1886/1890
  • Words and deeds, 1890/1894
  • Peripatetic, 1895/1899
  • Kittery Point, 1900/1905
  • Greater losses, 1906/1910
  • Reconsiderations, 1911/1917
  • Eighty years and after, 1918/1920.