William Dean Howells
Subtitle: a writer's life
By: Susan Goodman and Carl Dawson.
Contributors: Dawson, Carl.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 519
Subjects: Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920.; Novelists, American -- 19th century -- Biography.; Critics -- United States -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-498) and index.
Table of contents: title: Chronology of Howells' life and work; title: Parallel lives; title: Warring ambitions, 1851/1859; title: Years of decision, 1859/1861; title: Consul at Venice, 1861/1865; title: Atlantic years, 1 : 1865/1867; title: Atlantic years, 2 : 1867/1871; title: His Mark Twain, from 1869; title: Fictional lives, 1871/1878; title: From Venice as far as Belmont, 1878/1882; title: In England and Italy, 1882/1883; title: The man of business, 1883/1886; title: Heartache and horror, 1886/1890; title: Words and deeds, 1890/1894; title: Peripatetic, 1895/1899; title: Kittery Point, 1900/1905; title: Greater losses, 1906/1910; title: Reconsiderations, 1911/1917; title: Eighty years and after, 1918/1920.