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INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG WORKS OF WILLIAM DEAN HOWELS
Compiled by David Widger
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## 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
CONTENTS
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FENNEL AND RUE
By William Dean Howells
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XXI.
DR. BREEN'S PRACTICE.
By William Dean Howells
1881
CONTENTS
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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
CONTENTS
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
PART FIRST
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PART THIRD
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PART FOURTH
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PART FIFTH
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THEIR SILVER WEDDING JOURNEY.
PART I.
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XXV.
PART II.
XXVI.
XXVII.
XXVIII.
XXIX.
XXX.
XXXI.
XXXII.
XXXIII.
XXXIV.
XXXV.
XXXVI.
XXXVII.
XXXVIII.
XXXIX.
XL.
XLI.
XLII.
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XLIV.
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XLVI.
XLVII.
PART III.
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LIX.
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LXIII.
LXIV.
LXV.
LXVI.
LXVII.
LXVIII.
LXIX.
LXX.
LXXI.
LXXII.
LXXIII.
LXXVI.
LXXV.
LITERATURE AND LIFE
by William Dean Howells
CONTENTS
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
I II III IV V. VI. VII.
VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. XIV.
XV. XVII. XVIII. XIX. XX. XXI.
XXII. XXIII. XXIV. XXV. XXVI. XXVII.
PG EDITOR’S BOOKMARKS
APRIL HOPES
1887
by William Dean Howells
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LITERARY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES
by William Dean Howells
CONTENTS
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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X.
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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IV.
MY MARK TWAIN
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ETEXT EDITOR’S BOOKMARKS
RAGGED LADY.
By William Dean Howells
CONTENTS
Part 1.
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II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
X.
XI.
XII.
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Part 2.
XV.
XVI.
XVII.
XVIII.
XIX.
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XI.
XXII.
XXIII
XXIV.
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XXVII.
XXVIII.
XXIX.
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XXXI.
XXXII.
XXXIII.
XXXIV.
XXXV.
XXXVI.
XXXVII.
XXXVIII.
XXXIX.
XL.
THE LANDLORD AT LION'S HEAD
By William Dean Howells
CONTENTS
THE LANDLORD AT LION'S HEAD
Part I.
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
X.
XI.
XII.
XIII.
XIV.
XVI.
XVII.
XVIII.
XIX.
XX.
XXI.
XXII.
XIII.
XXIV.
XXV.
XXVI.
Part II.
XXVII.
XXVIII.
XXIX
XXX.
XXXI.
XXXII.
XXXIII.
XXXIV.
XXXV.
XXXVI.
XXXVII.
XXXVIII.
XXXIX
XL.
XLI.
XLII.
XLIII
XLIV
XLV.
XLVI
XLVII.
XLVIII
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LV
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
CONTENTS
ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XII.
CHAPTER XIII.
CHAPTER XIV.
CHAPTER XV.
CHAPTER XVI.
CHAPTER XVII.
CHAPTER XVIII.
CHAPTER XIX.
CHAPTER XX.
CHAPTER XXI.
CHAPTER XXII.
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
CONTENTS
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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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IV
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VIII
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List of Illustrations
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
CONTENTS
THE MINISTER'S CHARGE;
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
X.
XI.
XII.
XIII.
XIV.
XV.
XVI
XVII.
XVIII.
XIX.
XX.
XXI.
XXII.
XXIII.
XXIV.
XXV.
XXVI.
XXVII
XXVIII.
XXIX.
XXX.
XXXI.
XXXII.
XXXIII
XXXIV.
XXXV.
XXXVI
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
CONTENTS
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XXX.
THE LADY OF THE AROOSTOOK
By William Dean Howells
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A FOREGONE CONCLUSION
By William Dean Howells
Fifteenth Edition.
CONTENTS
A FOREGONE CONCLUSION
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XVIII.
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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XXIV.
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XXVII.
XXVIII.
XXIX.
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XXXIV.
XXXV.
XXXVI.
XXXVII.
XXXVIII.
XXXIX.
XL.
XLI.
A TRAVELER FROM ALTRURIA
Romance
By W. D. Howells
1908
CONTENTS
A TRAVELER FROM ALTRURIA
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VII
VIII
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XII
QUESTIONABLE SHAPES
BY
W. D. HOWELLS
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
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART FIRST
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VIII
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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.
THE STORY OF A PLAY
A Novel
BY
W. D. HOWELLS
1898
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.