Extensive historical annotations have been added to thetext of this Norton Critical Edition.The process of composition is followed through Howells' initialsketches and letters. Analysis of the contemp
Exploring the consciousness and creative impulse of William Dean Howells, Professor Vanderbilt finds that Howells' personality reflected the mixed feelings of the American mind in an ambivalent and tr
In 1861, in recognition of his service to the election campaign of the previous year, Abraham Lincoln appointed William Dean Howells consul to Venice. Howells lived in Italy for four years during the
For more than forty years William Dean Howells counted Mark Twain among his closest friends. Howells knew all the great men of American literature during the last half of the nineteenth century. In hi
OCTOBER, 1962: The discovery of soviet missiles in Cuba has sparked a confrontation with global implications. Soviet Union Premier Nikita Khruschev and United States President John F. Kennedy face off
Adopted by the European Community in May of 2005, the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive introduces a general prohibition on a range of unfair business-to-consumer practices. In this work, Howells
Rubin (humanities, Arapaho Community College, Littleton, Colorado) argues that the achievements of American literary figure Howells (1837-1920) cannot be fully appreciated without considering his part
