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Nonfiction: Literary Criticism, Travel Sketches, Autobiography
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Howells's "Editor's
Study" columns online. This page provides links to
and brief descriptions of all the Harper's "Editor's Study" columns
available at Cornell's Making of America site.
Criticism and Fiction
American
Literary Centers (from Literature And Life)
Belated Guest, a (from
Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
Cambridge Neighbors
(from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
Confessions of a Summer
Colonist (from Literature and Life)
Editor's
Relations With The Young Contributor (from Literature And Life)
"Eighty
Years and After" Harper's, March 2000.
Last
Days In A Dutch Hotel (from Literature And Life)
Literary Boston as
I Knew It (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
Literary Friends and
Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship
"Literary
Boston Thirty Years Ago" Harper's New Monthly Magazine. /
Volume 91, Issue 546 (November, 1895; page images from MOA)
Literature and Life
(Complete) Contents: Man of Letters in Business --Confessions
of a Summer Colonist -- The YoungContributor -- Last Days in a Dutch
Hotel --Anomalies of the Short Story -- Spanish Prisoners of War
-- American Literary Centers -- Standard Household Effect Co. --
Notes of aVanished Summer -- Worries of a Winter Walk --Summer Isles
of Eden -- Wild Flowers of the Asphalt -- A Circus in the Suburbs
-- A SheHamlet -- The Midnight Platoon -- The Beach atRockaway --
Sawdust in the Arena -- At a Dime Museum -- American Literature in
Exile -- The Horse Show -- The Problem of the Summer -- Aesthetic
New York Fifty-odd Years Ago -- FromNew York into New England --
The Art of theAdsmith -- The Psychology of Plagiarism -- Puritanism
in American Fiction -- The What and How in Art -- Politics in American
Authors - Storage -- "Floating down the River on the O-hi-o".
My First Visit to New
England (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
Roundabout to Boston
(from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
Staccato Notes of a
Vanished Summer (from Literature and Life)
Standard Household-Effect
Company, the (from Literature and Life)
Travel top
Familiar Spanish Travels
Italian
Journeys. Page images at the Michigan Making of America
Site.Italian Journeys
Last Days in a Dutch
Hotel (from Literature and Life)
"A
Little Swiss Sojourn (First Paper)" and "A
Little Swiss Sojourn" (Second Paper) Harper's New Monthly
Magazine. / Volume 76, Issue 453-4 (February and March 1888)
London Films
Roman Holidays, and
Others
Seven English Cities
Venetian Life
Literary Criticism top
American Literary Centers
(from Literature and Life)
List
of Howells's Works at Project Gutenberg.
Complete Works of W. D. Howells
(Project Gutenberg)
Complete Project Gutenberg
William Dean Howells Literature Essays Includes Contents: Literary
Friends and Acquaintances: Biographical -- My First Visit to New England
--First Impressions of Literary New York --Roundabout to Boston -- Literary
Boston As I Knew It -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- The White Mr. Longfellow
-- Studies of Lowell -- Cambridge Neighbors -- A Belated Guest -- My Mark
Twain. Literature and Life: Man of Letters in Business -- Confessions
of a Summer Colonist -- The Young Contributor --Last Days in a Dutch
Hotel -- Anomalies of theShort Story -- Spanish Prisoners of War --American
Literary Centers -- Standard Household Effect Co. -- Notes of a Vanished
Summer -- Worries of a Winter Walk -- Summer Isles of Eden -- Wild Flowers
of the Asphalt -- A Circus in the Suburbs -- A She Hamlet -- The Midnight
Platoon -- The Beach at Rockaway -- Sawdust in the Arena -- At a Dime Museum
--American Literature in Exile -- The Horse Show -- The Problem of the
Summer -- Aesthetic New York Fifty-odd Years Ago -- From New York intoNew
England -- The Art of the Adsmith -- ThePsychology of Plagiarism -- Puritanism
inAmerican Fiction -- The What and How in Art -- Politics in American Authors - Storage
-- "Floating down the River on the O-hi-o" My Literary Passions: The Bookcase
at Home -- Goldsmith -- Cervantes - Irving -- First Fiction and Drama -- Longfellow's "Spanish
Student" - Scott -- Lighter Fancies - Pope -- Various Preferences -- Uncle
Tom's Cabin -- Ossian -- Shakespeare -- Ik Marvel - Dickens -- Wordsworth,
Lowell, Chaucer -- Macaulay -- Critics and Reviews -- ANon-literary Episode - Thackeray
-- "LazarilloDe Tormes" -- Curtis, Longfellow, Schlegel - Tennyson - Heine
-- De Quincey, Goethe, Longfellow -- George Eliot, Hawthorne, Goethe, Heine
-- Charles Reade -- Dante -- Goldoni, Manzoni, D'azeglio -- "Pastor Fido," "Aminta," "Romola," "Yeast," "Paul
Ferroll" -- Erckmann-chatrian, Bjorstjerne Bjornson --Tourguenief,
Auerbach -- Certain Preferences and Experiences -- Valdes, Galdos, Verga,
Zola, Trollope, Hardy -- Tolstoy. Criticism and Fiction.
Essays and Versions
Editor's Relations with the
Young Contributor (from Literature and Life)
Modern Italian Poets
My
Literary Passions Contents: The Bookcase at Home -- Goldsmith --Cervantes
-- Irving -- First Fiction and Drama -- Longfellow's "Spanish Student" --
Scott -- Lighter Fancies -- Pope -- Various Preferences -- Uncle
Tom's Cabin -- Ossian -- Shakespeare -- Ik Marvel -- Dickens -- Wordsworth,
Lowell, Chaucer -- Macaulay -- Critics and Reviews -- A Non-literary
Episode -- Thackeray -- "Lazarillo De Tormes" -- Curtis, Longfellow, Schlegel
-- Tennyson -- Heine -- De Quincey, Goethe,Longfellow -- George Eliot,
Hawthorne, Goethe, Heine -- Charles Reade -- Dante -- Goldoni, Manzoni,
D'azeglio -- "Pastor Fido," "Aminta,""Romola," "Yeast," "Paul Ferroll" --
Erckmann-chatrian, Bjorstjerne Bjornson --Tourguenief, Auerbach -- Certain
Preferences and Experiences -- Valdes, Galdos, Verga, Zola, Trollope, Hardy
-- Tolstoy.
Some Anomalies of the Short
Story (from Literature and Life) (from Literature And Life)
Howells on Individual Authors top
See also My
Literary Passions
"Edward
Bellamy," prefatory sketch from The Blindman's World and Other Stories (1898)
"Mr.
Charles W. Chesnutt" (from the University of Virginia)
Introduction to Paul
Laurence Dunbar's Lyrics
of Lowly Life (1896); another
version at the American
Verse Project (Thanks to Rebecca Wall for this new URL)
On Hawthorne from Literary
Friends and Acquaintance (1900)
My Mark Twain (from Literary
Friends and Acquaintance)
Oliver Wendell Holmes (from
Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
Excerpts from "Opinions
of W. D. Howells," New York Sun (April 30, 1899) on Kipling's "The
White Man's Burden"
White Mr. Longfellow, the
(from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
Studies of Lowell (from
Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
"Frank
Norris" (from the University of Virginia)
On
Walt Whitman's November Boughs from Harper's New Monthly
Magazine 78 (February 1889).
Emile Zola
Henry James, Jr. (from
Project Gutenberg)Updated link Version
for Palm Pilot
Review
of Henry James's Hawthorne (originally from Eric Eldred's Hawthorne
site)
Howells on Twain top
Mark
Twain: An Inquiry."A response to Twain's "To the Person Sitting in
Darkness," North American Review, February 1901.
My Mark Twain (from Literary
Friends and Acquaintance) (Project Gutenberg)
My
Mark Twain (from Jim Zwick's Twain Site at boondocks.net) Includes
W. D. Howells's My Mark
Twain with additional criticism not included in that volume, including
his speech at the Nov. 1900 Lotos Club Welcome Home dinner, the introduction
to Mark Twain's Speeches, and his Editor's Easy Chair reviews of Mark Twain:
A Biography and Mark Twain's
Letters. Updated link
Review
(1869) of The Innocents Abroad (from Jim Zwick's Twain Site)Updated
link
Review
of Tom Sawyer in the Atlantic Monthly (May 1876) (from
the University of Virginia and from The
Atlantic Unbound site)
Essays top
The Man of Letters as a Man
of Business
The Man of Letters as a Man
of Business ;
Version for Palm Pilot Scribner's Magazine 14
(1893), 429-446.
A Psychological Counter-Current
in Recent Fiction Version
for Palm Pilot
"The
Turning of the Dove" (from Jim Zwick's Twain site)
"The
Country Printer" (Scribner's, May 1893; from Cornell's Making
of America site)
from the "Editor's
Easy Chair," Harper's Monthly (1920)
"Philippine
Casuistry," Harper's Weekly 46 (7 June 1902)
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