Research Catalog

Title

Prefaces to contemporaries, 1882-1920 / by William Dean Howells ; facsimile reproductions, with an introduction and bibliographical note by George Arms, William M. Gibson, Frederic C. Marston, Jr.

Author

Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920

Publication

Gainesville, Florida : Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1957.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Arms, George, 1912-1992
• Gibson, William M. (William Merriam), 1912-1987
• Marston, Frederic C.

Description

xx, 200 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Contains a selection of critical literary prefaces written by William Dean Howells.

Series Statement

Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints

Uniform Title

Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints (Series)

Subject

• Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920
• Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920
• Prefaces
• prefaces
• Prefaces

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. xviii-xix)

Contents

Living truths from the writings of Charles Kingsley -- Sebastopol, by Leo Tolstoi -- Mark Twain's Library of humor -- Pastels in prose, translated by Stuart Merrill -- The house by the medlar-tree, by Giovanni Verga -- South-seas idylls, by Charles Warren Stoddard -- The poems of George Pellew -- Main-travelled roads, by Hamlin Garland -- Master and man, by Leo Tolstoy -- Dona Perfecta, by B. Perez Galdos -- Maggie, by Stephen Crane -- Lyrics of lowly life, by Paul Laurence Dunbar -- English society, by George du Maurier -- The blindman's world and other stories, by Edward Bellamy -- Germinal, by Emile Zola -- Their husbands' wives, edited by William Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden -- Under the sunset, edited by William Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden -- Different girls, edited by William Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden -- Quaint courtships, edited by William Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden -- The heart of childhood, edited by William Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden -- Southern lights and shadows, edited by William Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden -- Shapes that haunt the dusk, edited by William Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden -- Mark Twain's speeches -- Poems, by Madison Cawein -- Tom Brown's school-days, by Thomas Hughes -- The Henry James year book -- Artemus Ward's best stories -- They of the high trails, by Hamlin Garland -- Daisy Miller, by Henry James -- The second odd number : thirteen tales, by Guy de Maupassant -- The story of a country town, by E.W. Howe -- The shadow of the cathedral, by Vicente Blasco Ibanez -- The actor-manager, by Leonard Merrick -- The great modern American stories, compiled by William Dean Howells.

LCCN

57006415

OCLC

• ocm26106467
• 26106467
• SCSB-9070822

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library