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      A Modern Instance

      

      WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS

      

      

      

       A Modern Instance, W. D. Howells

       Jazzybee Verlag Jürgen Beck

       86450 Altenmünster, Loschberg 9

       Deutschland

      

       ISBN: 9783849657352

      

       www.jazzybee-verlag.de

       [email protected]

      

      

      

      

      CONTENTS:

       INTRODUCTION. 1

       I. 5

       II. 15

       III. 20

       IV. 26

       V. 38

       VI. 47

       VII. 55

       VIII. 65

       IX. 77

       X. 85

       XI. 92

       XII. 97

       XIII. 107

       XIV. 112

       XV. 121

       XVI. 128

       XVII. 134

       XVIII. 144

       XIX. 153

       XX. 160

       XXI. 165

       XXII. 172

       XXIII. 184

       XXIV. 195

       XXV. 203

       XXVI. 208

       XXVII. 216

       XXVIII. 226

       XXIX. 236

       XXX. 245

       XXXI. 249

       XXXII. 260

       XXXIII. 267

       XXXIV. 276

       XXXV. 285

       XXXVI. 294

       XXXVII. 300

       XXXVIII. 308

       XXXIX. 316

       XL. 323

       XLI. 332

      INTRODUCTION.

      Mr. Howells has written a long series of poems, novels, sketches, stories, and essays, and has been perhaps the most continuous worker in the literary art among American writers. He was born at Martin's Perry, Belmont County, Ohio, March 1, 1837, and the experiences of his early life have been delightfully told by himself in A Boy's Town, My Year in a Log Cabin, and My Literary Passions. These books, which seem like pastimes in the midst of Howells's serious work, are likely to live long, not only as playful autobiographic records, but as vivid pictures of life in the middle west in the middle of the nineteenth century. The boy lived in a home where frugality was the law of economy, but where high ideals of noble living were cheerfully maintained, and the very occupations of the household tended to stimulate literary activity. He read voraciously and with an instinctive scent for what was great and permanent in literature, and in his father's printing-office learned to set type, and soon to make contributions to the local journals. He went to the state Capitol to report the proceedings of the legislature, and before he was twenty-two had become news editor of the State Journal of Columbus, Ohio.

      But at the same time he had given clear intimations of his literary skill, and had contributed several poems to the Atlantic Monthly. His introduction to literature was in the stirring days just before the war for the Union, and he had a generous enthusiasm for the great principles which were then at stake. Yet the political leaven chiefly caused the bread he was baking to rise, and his native genius was distinctly for work in creative literature. His contribution to the political writing of the day, besides his newspaper work, was a small campaign life of Lincoln; and shortly after the incoming of the first Republican administration he received the appointment of consul at Venice.

      At Venice he remained from 1861 to 1865, and these years may fairly be taken as standing for his university training. He carried with him to Europe some conversance with French, German, Spanish, and Italian, and an insatiable thirst for literature in these, languages. Naturally now he concentrated his attention on the Italian language and literature, but after all he was not made for a microscopic


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