num_pages: 570
description: Dramatizes the deteriorating relationship between Marcia Hubbard and her husband, Bartley, a philandering journalist, and their subsequent divorce.
language: English
title: A modern instance
titlecomplete: A modern instance (His A selected edition of W. D. Howells ; v. 10)
characters: Bartley Hubbard, Ben Halleck, Marcia Gaylord
genres: Fiction, American, Grad School, Americana, Classic Literature, Literature, Read For School, Classics, Novels, 19th Century
ratings_count: 409
publisher: Indiana University Press