This unique collection of William Dean Howells' complete short stories has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards.
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
