by William Dean Howells
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You are very welcome to the Alderling incident, my dear Acton, if you think you can do anything with it, and I will give it as circumstantially as possible. The thing has its limitations, I … Read the rest
Category: William Dean Howells
Tonelli’s Marriage
by William Dean Howells
There was no richer man in Venice than Tommaso Tonelli, who had enough on his florin a day; and none younger than he, who owned himself forty-seven years old. He led the cheerfullest life in the … Read the rest
Turkeys Turning The Tables
by William Dean Howells
“Well, you see,” the papa began, on Christmas morning, when the little girl had snuggled in his lap into just the right shape for listening, “it was the night after Thanksgiving, and you know how everybody … Read the rest
Ways Out
by William Dean Howells
In 1893 Jacob S. Coxey, a respectable citizen of Massillon, started a movement in favor of good roads which took the form of a pilgrimage to Washington to petition Congress for its object. Several armies, as … Read the rest
I Talk of Dreams
by William Dean Howells
BUT it is mostly my own dreams I talk of, and that will somewhat excuse me for talking of dreams at all. Everyone knows how delightful the dreams are that one dreams one’s self, and how … Read the rest
War Stops Literature
by William Dean Howells
War stops literature. This is the belief of a man who for more than a quarter of a century has been in the front rank of the world’s novelists, who wrote The Rise of Silas Lapham … Read the rest
The Pony Engine and the Pacific Express
by William Dean Howells
Christmas Eve, after the children had hung up their stockings and got all ready for St. Nic, they climbed up on the papa’s lap to kiss him good-night, and when they both got their arms round … Read the rest
The Pumpkin-Glory
by William Dean Howells
The papa had told the story so often that the children knew just exactly what to expect the moment he began. They all knew it as well as he knew it himself, and they could keep … Read the rest
The Pursuit Of The Piano
by William Dean Howells
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Hamilton Gaites sat breakfasting by the window of a restaurant looking out on Park Square, in Boston, at a table which he had chosen after rejecting one on the Boylston Street side of the place … Read the rest
The Renegades
by William Dean Howells
Simon Girty, who tried so hard to save Kenton’s life at Wapatimika, was the most notorious of those white renegades who abounded in the Ohio country during the Indian wars. The life of the border was … Read the rest