The Complete Short Stories of W.D. Howells (Illustrated Edition)

This unique collection of William Dean Howells' complete short stories has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards.

William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author, literary critic, and playwright. Nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters", he was particularly known for his tenure as editor of the Atlantic Monthly as well as his own prolific writings, including the Christmas story "Christmas Every Day", and the novels The Rise of Silas Lapham and A Traveler from Altruria. Howells is known to be the father of American realism, and a denouncer of the sentimental novel. He was the first American author to bring a realist aesthetic to the literature of the United States. His stories of Boston upper crust life set in the 1850s are highly regarded among scholars of American fiction.

Table of Contents:

Introduction

WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS by Charles Dudley Warner

Short Stories

Christmas Every Day

Turkeys Turning the Tables

The Pony Engine and the Pacific Express

The Pumpkin Glory

Butterflyfutterby and Flutterbybutterfly

Adventures in a Boy's Town

Life in a Boy's Town

Games and Pastimes

Glimpses of the Larger World

The Last of a Boy's Town

A Sleep and a Forgetting

The Eidolons of Brooks Alford

A Memory that Worked Overtime

A Case of Metaphantasmia

Editha

Braybridge's Offer

The Chick of the Easter Egg

A Daughter of the Storage

A Presentiment

Captain Dunlevy's Last Trip

The Return to Favor

Somebody's Mother

The Face at the Window

An Experience

The Boarders

Breakfast is My Best Meal

The Mother-Bird

The Amigo

Black Cross Farm

The Critical Bookstore

A Feast of Reason

City and Country in the Fall

Table Talk

The Escapade of a Grandfather

Self-Sacrifice

A Fearful Responsibility

At the Sign of the Savage

Tonelli's Marriage

Buying a Horse

Reminiscences and Autobiography

A Boy's Town

Years of My Youth