Our Times, 1900-1925: The turn of the centuryCharles Scribner's Sons, 1926 |
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... Howells Laura Jean Libbey · 199 200 207 209 211 213 215 216 221 Bryn Mawr revives the dress styles of 1900 A characteristic dime - novel cover Richard Mansfield and William Gillette Julia Marlowe , Josef Hofmann , and Minnie Maddern ...
... Howells Laura Jean Libbey · 199 200 207 209 211 213 215 216 221 Bryn Mawr revives the dress styles of 1900 A characteristic dime - novel cover Richard Mansfield and William Gillette Julia Marlowe , Josef Hofmann , and Minnie Maddern ...
Page 202
... Howells , could be as interesting , and closer to life as the American himself knew it , than the more gilded English creations of Mrs. Humphry Ward ; that Mark Twain's Missouri boy , Tom Sawyer , and Bret Harte's gambler , Jack Hamlin ...
... Howells , could be as interesting , and closer to life as the American himself knew it , than the more gilded English creations of Mrs. Humphry Ward ; that Mark Twain's Missouri boy , Tom Sawyer , and Bret Harte's gambler , Jack Hamlin ...
Page 210
... Howells , in all his more than thirty novels , was rarely , if ever , a " best seller " to the public ; but to writers , especially to younger ones , 1 he was all that 1 Howells recognized reality and genuine talent , even when its ...
... Howells , in all his more than thirty novels , was rarely , if ever , a " best seller " to the public ; but to writers , especially to younger ones , 1 he was all that 1 Howells recognized reality and genuine talent , even when its ...
Page 211
... Howells as of the very best in craftsmanship , took him as a model , accepted his influence spontaneously and gladly . That brought it about that Howells , more than any William Dean Howells . other , was the father of the natural ...
... Howells as of the very best in craftsmanship , took him as a model , accepted his influence spontaneously and gladly . That brought it about that Howells , more than any William Dean Howells . other , was the father of the natural ...
Page 212
... Howells pictured all that in a way that brought to the reader a literal , vivid , burning blush of sympathy . That illustrates Howells's strength , and also his defect , which was the making of serious tragedy out of mere mishaps in ...
... Howells pictured all that in a way that brought to the reader a literal , vivid , burning blush of sympathy . That illustrates Howells's strength , and also his defect , which was the making of serious tragedy out of mere mishaps in ...
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