William Dean Howells
Born	1837
Died	1920 (aged 83)
Language	English
Genre	Literary Criticism, Realism
Nationality	American
Gender	Male

William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells was an American author who primarily wrote in English.

William Dean Howells (1837–1920) was an American novelist and literary critic known for his realist fiction. He was the editor of “The Atlantic Monthly” and wrote novels like “The Rise of Silas Lapham” and “A Hazard of New Fortunes.” Howells played a significant role in promoting realism in American literature.

Short Stories written by William Dean Howells

A Case Of Metaphantasmia 1874 - The stranger was a guest of Halson's, and Halson himself was a comparative stranger, for he was of recent election… ... Read more
A Circle In The Water 1874 - I. The sunset struck its hard red light through the fringe of leafless trees to the westward, and gave their… ... Read more
A Day’s Pleasure 1874 - I.--THE MORNING. They were not a large family, and their pursuits and habits were very simple; yet the summer was… ... Read more
A Difficult Case 1874 - I. It was in the fervor of their first married years that the Ewberts came to live in the little… ... Read more
A Feast Of Reason 1874 - Florindo and Lindora had come to the end of another winter in town, and had packed up for another summer… ... Read more
A Foolish Man, Philosopher, and Fanatic 1874 - "Who is Blennerhassett?" asked William Wirt, at the trial of Aaron Burr for treason, and many a schoolboy since has… ... Read more
A Memory That Worked Overtime 1874 - Minver's brother took down from the top of the low bookshelf a small painting on panel, which he first studied… ... Read more
A Pair Of Patient Lovers 1874 - I. We first met Glendenning on the Canadian boat which carries you down the rapids of the St. Lawrence from… ... Read more
A Pedestrian Tour 1874 - Walking for walking's sake I do not like. The diversion appears to me one of the most factitious of modern… ... Read more
A Presentiment 1874 - Over our coffee in the Turkish room Minver was usually a censor of our several foibles rather than a sharer… ... Read more
A Romance Of Real Life 1874 - It was long past the twilight hour, which has been already mentioned as so oppressive in suburban places, and it… ... Read more
A Sleep And A Forgetting 1874 - I Matthew Lanfear had stopped off, between Genoa and Nice, at San Remo in the interest of a friend who… ... Read more
An Experience 1874 - For a long time after the event my mind dealt with the poor man in helpless conjecture, and it has… ... Read more
At a Dime Museum 1874 - "I see," said my friend, "that you have been writing a good deal about the theatre during the past winter.… ... Read more
At The Sign Of The Savage 1874 - As they bowled along in the deliberate German express train through the Black Forest, Colonel Kenton said he had only… ... Read more
Braybridge’s Offer 1874 - We had ordered our dinners and were sitting in the Turkish room at the club, waiting to be called, each… ... Read more
Butterflyflutterby and Flutterbybutterfly 1874 - One morning when the papa was on a visit to the grandfather, the nephew and the niece came rushing into… ... Read more
Buying A Horse 1874 - If one has money enough, there seems no reason why one should not go and buy such a horse as… ... Read more
By Horse-Car To Boston 1874 - At a former period the writer of this had the fortune to serve his country in an Italian city whose… ... Read more
Christmas Every Day 1892 - The little girl came into her papa's study, as she always did Saturday morning before breakfast, and asked for a… ... Read more
City and Country in the Fall, A Long-distance Eclogue 1916 - Morrison. Hello! Hello! Is that you, Wetherbee? Wetherbee. Yes. Who are you? What do you want with me? Morrison. Oh,… ... Read more
Doorstep Acquaintance 1874 - Vagabonds the world would no doubt call many of my doorstep acquaintance, and I do not attempt to defend them… ... Read more
Editha 1874 - The air was thick with the war feeling, like the electricity of a storm which has not yet burst. Editha… ... Read more
Famous Ohio Soldiers 1874 - First among these I count the great chief Pontiac, who led the rebellion of the mid-western tribes against the English… ... Read more
Floating Down the River On the O-hi-o 1874 - There was not much promise of pleasure in the sodden afternoon of a mid- March day at Pittsburg, where the… ... Read more
His Apparition 1874 - I. The incident was of a dignity which the supernatural has by no means always had, and which has been… ... Read more
Incidents And Characteristics 1874 - Nearly all the Ohio stories since 1812 have been stories of business enterprise and industrial adventure. I dare say that… ... Read more
Indian Fighters 1874 - In the long war with the Indians, the great battles were nearly all fought within the region that afterwards became… ... Read more
Indian Heroes And Sages 1897 - The Ohio Indians were of almost as mixed origin as the white people of Ohio, and if they had qualities… ... Read more
Jubilee Days 1874 - I believe I have no good reason for including among these suburban sketches my recollections of the Peace Jubilee, celebrated… ... Read more
Later Captivities 1874 - The Indians seem to have kept on carrying the whites into captivity, to the very end of the war, which… ... Read more
Life In The Backwoods 1874 - Amidst all this tomahawking and scalping, this shooting and stabbing, this shedding of blood and of tears, this heartbreak of… ... Read more
Mrs. Johnson 1874 - It was on a morning of the lovely New England May that we left the horse- car, and, spreading our… ... Read more
Ohio As A Part Of France 1874 - If the people of Ohio were Eskimos in the ages before history began, and then thousands of years after, but… ... Read more
Ohio Becomes English 1874 - Neither the French nor the English had any right to the Ohio country which they both claimed. If it belonged… ... Read more
Ohio Statesmen 1874 - The men who have given distinction to our state in politics could hardly be more than named in a record… ... Read more
Other Notable Ohioans 1874 - Two names well-known in literature belong to Ashtabula County. Albion W. Tourgee was born there in 1838, and made a… ... Read more
Sawdust in the Arena 1874 - It was in the old Roman arena of beautiful Verona that the circus events I wish to speak of took… ... Read more
Scene 1874 - On that loveliest autumn morning, the swollen tide had spread over all the russet levels, and gleamed in the sunlight… ... Read more
Some Lessons From The School Of Morals 1874 - Any study of suburban life would be very imperfect without some glance at that larger part of it which is… ... Read more
Somebody’s Mother 1874 - The figure of a woman sat crouched forward on one of the lowermost steps of the brownstone dwelling which was… ... Read more
Table Talk 1874 - They were talking after dinner in that cozy moment when the conversation has ripened, just before the coffee, into mocking… ... Read more
The Amigo 1874 - His name was really Perez Armando Aldeano, but in the end everybody called him the _amigo_, because that was the… ... Read more
The Angel Of The Lord 1874 - I. "All that sort of personification," said Wanhope, "is far less remarkable than the depersonification which has now taken place… ... Read more
The Art of the Adsmith 1874 - The other day, a friend of mine, who professes all the intimacy of a bad conscience with many of my… ... Read more
The Boarders 1874 - The boarder who had eloped was a student at the theological seminary, and he had really gone to visit his… ... Read more
The Captivity Of Boone And Kenton 1874 - Colonel Smith was not the first whose captivity was passed in the Ohio country, but there is no record of… ... Read more
The Captivity Of James Smith 1874 - The stories of captivity among the Ohio Indians during the war that ended in 1794 would of themselves fill a… ... Read more
The Chick Of The Easter Egg 1874 - The old fellow who told that story of dream-transference on a sleeping-car at Christmas-time was again at the club on… ... Read more
The Civil War In Ohio 1874 - Though the Ohio people were too plodding for Aaron Burr, and though they were taunted almost from the first as… ... Read more
The Critical Bookstore 1874 - It had long been the notion of Frederick Erlcort, who held it playfully, held it seriously, according to the company… ... Read more
The Daughter Of The Storage 1874 - I They were getting some of their things out to send into the country, and Forsyth had left his work… ... Read more
The Eidolons Of Brooks Alford 1874 - I should like to give the story of Alford's experiences just as Wanhope told it, sitting with us before the… ... Read more
The Escapade Of A Grandfather 1874 - "Well, what are you doing here?" the younger of the two sages asked, with a resolute air of bonhomie, as… ... Read more
The Escape Of Knight And Slover 1874 - When the Indians made a raid on the settlements, they abandoned even victory if they had once had enough fighting;… ... Read more
The Father 1874 - THE man whose story is here to be told was the wealthiest and most influential person in his parish; his… ... Read more
The Fight With Slavery 1874 - Almost from the beginning Ohio was called the Yankee state by her Southern neighbors. Burr had found her people too… ... Read more
The First Great Settlements 1874 - General Rufus Putnam, a brave officer of the Revolutionary war, was the first to call the attention of the Eastern… ... Read more
The Forty Years’ War For The West 1874 - The French king gave up the West to the English king in 1763, but, as we have seen, the Indians… ... Read more
The History Of Ali Cogia, A Merchant Of Bagdad 1874 - In the reign of the Caliph Haroun-al-Raschid there lived at Bagdad a merchant named Ali Cogia, who was neither of… ... Read more
The Ice Folk And The Earth Folk 1874 - The first Ohio stories are part of the common story of the wonderful Ice Age, when a frozen deluge pushed… ... Read more
The Indian Wars And St. Clair’s Defeat 1874 - The Indians and the renegades at Sandusky would not believe their prisoners when Crawford's men told them that Cornwallis and… ... Read more
The Indian Wars And Wayne’s Victory 1874 - The Indians who had been so well generaled and had fought so ably, failed as usual to follow up their… ... Read more
The Magic Of A Voice 1874 - I. There was a full moon, and Langbourne walked about the town, unable to come into the hotel and go… ... Read more
The Midnight Platoon 1874 - He had often heard of it. Connoisseurs of such matters, young newspaper men trying to make literature out of life… ... Read more
The Mother-Bird 1874 - She wore around the turned-up brim of her bolero-like toque a band of violets not so much in keeping with… ... Read more
The Night Before Christmas: A Morality 1916 - I MR. AND MRS. CLARENCE FOUNTAIN Mrs. Clarence Fountain, backing into the room, and closing the door noiselessly before looking… ... Read more
The Pony Engine and the Pacific Express 1892 - Christmas Eve, after the children had hung up their stockings and got all ready for St. Nic, they climbed up… ... Read more
The Pumpkin-Glory 1892 - The papa had told the story so often that the children knew just exactly what to expect the moment he… ... Read more
The Pursuit Of The Piano 1874 - I.Hamilton Gaites sat breakfasting by the window of a restaurant looking out on Park Square, in Boston, at a table… ... Read more
The Renegades 1874 - Simon Girty, who tried so hard to save Kenton's life at Wapatimika, was the most notorious of those white renegades… ... Read more
The Return To Favor 1874 - He never, by any chance, quite kept his word, though there was a moment in every case when he seemed… ... Read more
The State Of Ohio In The War Of 1812 1874 - We may now begin to speak of the State of Ohio, for with the opening of the present century her… ... Read more
The Torture Of Colonel Crawford 1874 - The slaughter of the Christian Indians at Gnadenhutten took place in March, 1782, and in May ol the same year,… ... Read more
The Wickedest Deed In Our History 1874 - The Indians despised the white men for what they thought their stupidity in warfare, when they stood up in the… ... Read more
Though One Rose From The Dead 1874 - I. You are very welcome to the Alderling incident, my dear Acton, if you think you can do anything with… ... Read more
Tonelli’s Marriage 1874 - There was no richer man in Venice than Tommaso Tonelli, who had enough on his florin a day; and none… ... Read more
Turkeys Turning The Tables 1892 - "Well, you see," the papa began, on Christmas morning, when the little girl had snuggled in his lap into just… ... Read more
Ways Out 1874 - In 1893 Jacob S. Coxey, a respectable citizen of Massillon, started a movement in favor of good roads which took… ... Read more