Short Stories

ISBN-13: 9788028358198 / Angielski / Miękka / 672 str.

William Dean Howells

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William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author, literary critic, and playwright. Nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters", he was particularly known for his tenure as editor of the Atlantic Monthly as well as his own prolific writings, including the Christmas story "Christmas Every Day", and the novels The Rise of Silas Lapham and A Traveler from Altruria. Howells is known to be the father of American realism, and a denouncer of the sentimental novel. He was the first American author to bring a realist aesthetic to the literature of the United States. His stories of Boston upper crust life set in the 1850s are highly regarded among scholars of American fiction. Table of Contents: - Introduction - WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS by Charles Dudley Warner - Short Stories - Christmas Every Day - Turkeys Turning the Tables - The Pony Engine and the Pacific Express - The Pumpkin Glory - Butterflyfutterby and Flutterbybutterfly - Adventures in a Boy's Town - Life in a Boy's Town - Games and Pastimes - Glimpses of the Larger World - The Last of a Boy's Town - 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 - A Daughter of the Storage - A Presentiment - Captain Dunlevy's Last Trip - The Return to Favor - Somebody's Mother - The Face at the Window - An Experience - The Boarders - Breakfast is My Best Meal - The Mother-Bird - The Amigo - Black Cross Farm - The Critical Bookstore - A Feast of Reason - City and Country in the Fall - Table Talk - The Escapade of a Grandfather - Self-Sacrifice - A Fearful Responsibility - At the Sign of the Savage - Tonelli's Marriage - Buying a Horse - Reminiscences and Autobiography - A Boy's Town - Years of My Youth