Criticism and fiction, and other essays. Edited with introds. and notes by Clara Marburg Kirk and Rudolf Kirk.

Author: Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920.

Imprint:[New York] : New York University Press, 1959.

Descriptionxix, 413 p. ; 22 cm.

Note:Criticism and fiction -- My favorite novelist and his best book -- Norwegian romances -- A Turgenev novel -- The house by the medlar-tree -- Marta y Maria -- Scum -- Doņa Perfecta, a great novel -- A question of propriety -- Ibsenism -- Pleasures from tragedy -- Zola's naturalism -- Degeneration -- The philosophy of Tolstoy -- Recollections of an Atlantic editorsip -- The stamp of verity -- Mark Twain: an inquiry -- Flat Creek -- A tale of the heroic age -- James's Hawthorne -- A social study -- The romantic imagination -- Mr. Garland's books -- New York low life in fiction -- A case in point -- The country printer -- The man of letters as a man of business -- Letter to Daniel Coit Gilman -- Professor Barrett Wendell's notions of American literature -- Problems of existence in fiction -- An oportunity for American fiction -- The physiognomy of "the poor" -- The future of the American novel -- The turning point of my life -- Mr. Howells's speech -- Mr. Howells's paper.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note:Recommended in Resources for College Libraries

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