Howells's Works on the Web

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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.
  • Widger's Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of William Dean Howells
  • William Dean Howells: Complete Project Gutenberg William Dean Howells Works
    Contents: Studies: _ Henry James, Jr. -- The Man of Letters as a Man of Business -- A Psychological Counter-current in Recent Fiction -- EmileZola. _ 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 -- OliverWendell 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 the Short Story -- Spanish Prisoners of War -- American LiteraryCenters -- 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 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" _ 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 -- 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 -- CertainPreferences and Experiences -- Valdes, Galdos, Verga, Zola, Trollope, Hardy -- Tolstoy. _ Criticism and Fiction. _ Novels: _ The Rise of Silas Lapham -- An Open-eyed Conspiracy--an Idyl of Saratoga -- The Landlord at Lions Head -- Their Wedding Journey-- A Hazard of New Fortunes -- Their Silver Wedding Journey -- Dr. Breen's Practice -- Fennel and Rue -- The Kentons -- Ragged Lady. _ Plays: _ The Sleeping-Car -- The Garotters -- The Elevator -- The Parlor-Car -- The Register. Criticism, Essays, Reminiscences  top
  • 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.

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