William Dean Howells eBooks

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Nato a Martin’s Ferry, nell’Ohio, nel 1837, intraprese giovanissimo l’attività giornalistica. La pubblicazione di una biografia di Lincoln gli valse, da parte di quest’ultimo, la nomina a console a Venezia, dove rimase dal 1861 al 1865. Rientrato negli Stati Uniti, a Boston, diresse per dieci anni l’«Atlantic Monthly». Nel 1908 fu eletto primo presidente dell’American Academy of Arts and Letters. Morì a New York nel 1920. Scrittore prolifico, Howells, che partecipò attivamente alla vita culturale e sociale del proprio tempo, scrisse poesie e numerosi testi teatrali, nonché più di quaranta romanzi dei quali, oltre L’estate di San Martino, ricordiamo in particolare A Modern Instance e The Rise of Sylas Lapham.
EBOOK   9780243834648

Letters of an Altrurian Traveller. E-book. Formato PDF William Dean Howells   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Before the month was ended, an. Even longer letter went to Cyril, this time from Chicago, where Homos had journeyed to visit the great Columbian Ex position of 1893. This second Letter, likewise never reprinted, is of especial interest to the modern reader. In it is expressed the hope that the United States might eventually evolve toward the Altrurian vision of Classical beauty and Christian brotherhood which almost miraculously had become embodied in the White City on the shores of Lake Michigan. Aristides had always thought of Chicago as merely a sort of ultimate Manhattan, the realized ideal of that lar'geness, loudness and fastness which New York has persuaded the Americans is metro politan. He added: But after seeing the World's Fair City here, I feel as if 'i had caught a glimpse of the glorious capitals which will whiten the hills and shores of the east and the borderless plains of the west, when the New York and the Newer York of today shall seem to all the future Americans as impossible as they would seem to any Altrurian now.

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EBOOK   9780243843138

Five O'clock Tea. E-book. Formato PDF William Dean Howells   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Mrs. Somers, giving her hand: Why, Mr. Campbell How very nice of you How long have you been prowling about there on the landing? So stupid of them not to have turned up the gas!

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The Rise of Silas Lapham. E-book. Formato PDF William Dean Howells   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Walk right in! He called out to the journalist, whom he caught sight of through the door of the counting-room. He did not rise from the desk at which he was writing, but he gave Bartley his left hand for welcome, and be rolled his large head in the direction of a vacant chair. Sit down! I'll be with you in just half a minute.

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