American Writers: A Collection of Literary BiographiesLeonard Unger, A. Walton Litz, Molly Weigel, Lea Bechler, Jay Parini Scribner, 1974 - American literature The four volume set consists of ninety-seven of the pamphlets originally published as the University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers. Some have been revised and updated. |
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Page 277
... Howells ' life , as he later explained , especially in the light of the high critical success of Venetian Life ( 1866 ) . In this new kind of travel book , the first of many , Howells had contrasted the high art and the deep past of ...
... Howells ' life , as he later explained , especially in the light of the high critical success of Venetian Life ( 1866 ) . In this new kind of travel book , the first of many , Howells had contrasted the high art and the deep past of ...
Page 288
... Howells , it is as Delmar Cooke judged it " a master novel . " Finally , The Leatherwood God ( 1916 ) rep- resents a late , fine flowering of Howells ' tal- ent and his one punitive tragedy . It re - creates the rise of an actual Ohio ...
... Howells , it is as Delmar Cooke judged it " a master novel . " Finally , The Leatherwood God ( 1916 ) rep- resents a late , fine flowering of Howells ' tal- ent and his one punitive tragedy . It re - creates the rise of an actual Ohio ...
Page 294
... Howells , edited by Mildred Howells . New York : Doubleday , Doran , 1928 . Mark Twain - Howells Letters . . . 1872-1910 , edited by Henry Nash Smith and William M. Gibson . Cambridge , Mass .: Harvard Universi- sity Press , 1960 . IE ...
... Howells , edited by Mildred Howells . New York : Doubleday , Doran , 1928 . Mark Twain - Howells Letters . . . 1872-1910 , edited by Henry Nash Smith and William M. Gibson . Cambridge , Mass .: Harvard Universi- sity Press , 1960 . IE ...
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