William Dean Howells (1837–1920)
Autor de The Rise of Silas Lapham
Sobre El Autor
William Dean Howells was born in Martin's Ferry, Ohio on March 1, 1837. He dropped out of school to work as a typesetter and a printer's apprentice. He taught himself through intensive reading and the study of Spanish, French, Latin, and German. He wrote a campaign biography of Abraham Lincoln in mostrar más 1860. Lincoln appointed him U.S. consul in Venice, Italy in 1861 as a reward. After returning to the U.S. several years later, he became an assistant editor for The Atlantic Monthly, later becoming editor from 1871 to 1881. He also wrote columns for Harper's New Monthly Magazine and occasional pieces for The North American Review. As an editor and critic, he was a proponent of American realism. Although he wrote over a 100 books in various genres including novels, poems, literary criticism, plays, memoirs, and travel narratives, he is best known for his realistic fiction. His novels include A Modern Instance, The Rise of Silas Lapham, A Hazard of New Fortunes, The Undiscovered Country, A Chance Acquaintance, An Imperative Duty, Annie Kilburn, and The Coast of Bohemia. He received several honorary degrees from universities as well as a Gold Medal for fiction (later renamed after him as the Howells Medal) from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He died from pneumonia on May 11, 1920. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Nota de desambiguación:
(eng) This is the author page for the American diplomat, novelist and critic. For the anthropologist, please see William Howells.
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Series
Obras de William Dean Howells
Novels 1875-1886: A Foregone Conclusion, A Modern Instance, Indian Summer, The Rise of Silas Lapham (1982) 324 copias
William Dean Howells : Novels 1886-1888 : The Minister's Charge / April Hopes / Annie Kilburn (Library of America) (1989) 242 copias
Cambridge Neighbors: From Literary Friends and Acquaintance (World Cultural Heritage Library) (2009) 7 copias
The mouse-trap. Farce 5 copias
Selected writings of W.D.Howells 5 copias
A day's pleasure 4 copias
Complete Works of Mark Twain 4 copias
Three villages 4 copias
A fearful responsibility 4 copias
A Counterfeit Presentment: Comedy 3 copias
The Greatest Christmas Stories & Poems in One Volume: 150 Tales, Poems & Carols (Illustrated): Silent Night, Ring Out… (2015) 3 copias
Letters home 3 copias
The country printer 2 copias
Heroines of fiction, volume I 2 copias
A realist in the American theatre : selected drama criticism of William Dean Howells (1992) 2 copias
The Incredible Tales of Ohio (Illustrated Edition): The Renegades, The First Great Settlements, The Captivity of James… (2017) 2 copias
William Dean Howells - Premium Collection: 27 Novels in One Volume (Illustrated): The Rise of Silas Lapham, A Traveler… (2015) 2 copias
Eine preussische Konigstochter: Glanz und Elend am Hofe des Soldatenkonigs in den Memoiren der Markgrafin Wilhelmine… (1981) 2 copias
Mark Twain-Howells Letters: The Correspondence of Samuel L. Clemens and William D. Howells, 1869-1910 [Two Volumes] (1960) 2 copias
The Howells Story Book 2 copias
A BOY'S TOWN ADVENTURES: The Flight of Pony Baker, Boy Life, A Boy's Town & Years of My Youth (Illustrated… (2015) 2 copias
Собрание сочинений в восьми томах 2 copias
L'estate di San Martino 1 copia
LibriVox Christmas Short Works Collection 2020 — Autor — 1 copia
novels, 1886- 1 copia
a story of a play 1 copia
American Critical Essays, XIX-XX Century (The World's Classics) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Venetian Life 1 copia
Christmas Short Works Collection 2014 — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Their Wedding Journey 1 copia
Italian Journeys, Vol. 1 1 copia
Italian Journeys, Vol. 2 1 copia
A Woman's Reason 1 copia
The Vacation of the Kelwyns 1 copia
Howells Criticism and Fiction and other essays edited by Clara Marburg Kirk and Rudolf Kirk (1959) 1 copia
Tuscan Cities 1 copia
Certian Delightful English Towns 1 copia
TUTTI I GIORNI NATALE 1 copia
Riscurile parvenirii 1 copia
Room Forty-Five : A Farce 1 copia
Christmas Everyday Gift Set 1 copia
The unexpected guests : a farce 1 copia
Hither and thither in Germany 1 copia
“Henry James, Jr.” 1 copia
A parting and a meeting story 1 copia
The smoking car : a farce 1 copia
Dystopian Classics: Through the Eye of the Needle & A Traveler from Altruria: From the Author of The Rise of Silas… (2017) 1 copia
Out of the question : a comedy 1 copia
The Complete Travel Books of William Dean Howells: Travel Memoirs & Reports from Traveling Across Europe (Illustrated):… (2015) 1 copia
Amazing Stories from the History of Ohio (Illustrated): The Renegades, The First Great Settlements, The Captivity of… (2016) 1 copia
Une Rencontre: Roman de Deux Touristes sur le Saint-Laurent Et le Saguenay (Classic Reprint) (French Edition) (2017) 1 copia
Undiscovered Country-Volume 2 1 copia
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.] (1977) — Contribuidor — 295 copias
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Contribuidor — 153 copias
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contribuidor — 132 copias
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Contribuidor — 93 copias
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Contribuidor — 83 copias
Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated) (2011) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones — 77 copias
Published and Perished: Memoria, Eulogies, and Remembrances of American Writers (2002) — Contribuidor — 37 copias
Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.] (2012) — Contribuidor — 37 copias
Best Plays of the Early American Theatre From the Beginning to 1916 Complete (1967) — Contribuidor — 21 copias
The Romantic Friendship Reader: Love Stories Between Men in Victorian America (2003) — Contribuidor — 16 copias
Representative American Short Stories — Contribuidor — 5 copias
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- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1837-03-01
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1920-05-11
- Lugar de sepultura
- Cambridge Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Martins Ferry, Ohio, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- New York, New York, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Martins Ferry, Ohio, USA
New York, New York, USA
Hamilton, Ohio, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Kittery Point, Maine, USA
England (mostrar todos 7)
Italy - Educación
- self-educated
- Ocupaciones
- novelist
poet
playwright
editor
literary critic
travel writer (mostrar todos 14)
biographer
reporter
U.S. Consul (to Venice)
clerk, Ohio State House of Representatives
short-story writer
translator
essayist
children's book author - Relaciones
- Howells, John Mead (son)
- Organizaciones
- Ohio State Journal
Atlantic Monthly
Anti-Imperialist League
American Academy of Arts and Letters (president) - Premios y honores
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (president and member)
William Dean Howells House, Cambridge, Massachusetts - Aviso de desambiguación
- This is the author page for the American diplomat, novelist and critic. For the anthropologist, please see William Howells.
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