American Literature
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William Dean Howells

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William Dean Howells. Novels 1875-1886
	Edited by: Edwin H. Cady Library of America ISBN: 0-940450-04-6 Series Number: 8 Product Code: 200073; 1217 pages Price: $40.00
Four novels by America's most influential man of letters at the turn of the century, which explore the conflicts of private life and social institutions with unflinching realism. Contains A Foregone Conclusion and Indian Summer, dramas of complex romantic entanglements set in Italy, A Modern Instance, the first full-scale study of infidelity and divorce in American fiction, and The Rise of Silas Lapham, a brilliantly skeptical portrait of American business and new money. "For those of us who are still able to read novels for pleasure, this is a marvelous book."—Gore Vidal, The New York Review of Books

William Dean Howells. Novels 1886-1888
	Edited by: Don L. Cook Library of America ISBN: 0-940450-51-8 Series Number: 44 Product Code: 200461 Price: $40.00
The Minister's Charge, April Hopes, Annie Kilburn. Our foremost champion of literary realism, Howells merges social commentary and social comedy in his examination of contrasts in New England life in the 19th century: Christian ideals and commercial success; the rituals of courtship and the realities of love; a community's democratic aspirations and its class divisions. Surprisingly modern in their psychological motivations, frequently uncertain in their actions, Howells' characters reflect their creator's sense of the complexity and vigor of what he called "poor Real Life." "Essential."—Library Journal. "A much neglected writer worth discovering or revisiting."—Wall Street Journal 881 pages

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