Sketches and Short Fiction 

  • "Editha"(1905) .Now at the Howells Society site.Also available in a .pdf format for easy printing.
  • PDB Version for PalmPilot of "Editha," Howells's most frequently anthologized story (18K)
  • "A Romance of Real Life" (Atlantic, March 1870)
  • Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life)
  • Between the Dark and the Daylight
  • "Christmas Every Day" (HTML format; courtesy of Eric Eldred's gift of e-texts to the Howells Society)
  • "Christmas Every Day" (.PDB Version for PalmPilot; 7K)
  • Defenders Of Democracy; contributions from representative  other arts from our allies and our own country, ed. by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy 
  • "An East-Side Ramble" (from another site); (another version)
  • Fennel and Rue
  • "The Midnight Platoon" from Literature and Life.  Includes links to Crane's "An Experiment in Misery" and Dreiser's "Curious Shifts of the Poor" from SIster Carrie.
  • "Niagara Revisited: Twelve Years after Their Wedding Journey" The Atlantic Monthly. / Volume 51, Issue 307 (May 1883; page images at MOA)
  • "A Pair of Patient Lovers," Harper's New Monthly Magazine (Nov. 1897)
  • Quaint Courtships (as Editor)
  • Spanish Prisoners of War (from Literature and Life)
  • Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life)Contents: 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 NewYork Fifty-odd Years Ago -- From New York into  New England -- The Art of the Adsmith -- 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".
  • Images from Writings of William Dean Howells
  • Life at High Tide (as Editor)
  • Southern Lights and Shadows (as Editor)
  • Suburban Sketches (includes "A Romance of Real Life")
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