Author: William Dean Howells
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1633555410
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885 novel The Rise of Silas Lapham is perhaps his best known, describing the rise and fall of an American entrepreneur in the paint business. His social views were also strongly reflected in the novels Annie Kilburn (1888) and A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890). While known primarily as a novelist, his short story "Editha" (1905) - included in the collection Between the Dark and the Daylight (1907) - appears in many anthologies of American literature. Howells also wrote plays, criticism, and essays about contemporary literary figures such as Ibsen, Zola, Verga, and, especially, Tolstoy, which helped establish their reputations in the United States. He also wrote critically in support of many American writers. It is perhaps in this role that he had his greatest influence.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Author: William Dean Howells
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1633555410
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885 novel The Rise of Silas Lapham is perhaps his best known, describing the rise and fall of an American entrepreneur in the paint business. His social views were also strongly reflected in the novels Annie Kilburn (1888) and A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890). While known primarily as a novelist, his short story "Editha" (1905) - included in the collection Between the Dark and the Daylight (1907) - appears in many anthologies of American literature. Howells also wrote plays, criticism, and essays about contemporary literary figures such as Ibsen, Zola, Verga, and, especially, Tolstoy, which helped establish their reputations in the United States. He also wrote critically in support of many American writers. It is perhaps in this role that he had his greatest influence.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1633555410
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885 novel The Rise of Silas Lapham is perhaps his best known, describing the rise and fall of an American entrepreneur in the paint business. His social views were also strongly reflected in the novels Annie Kilburn (1888) and A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890). While known primarily as a novelist, his short story "Editha" (1905) - included in the collection Between the Dark and the Daylight (1907) - appears in many anthologies of American literature. Howells also wrote plays, criticism, and essays about contemporary literary figures such as Ibsen, Zola, Verga, and, especially, Tolstoy, which helped establish their reputations in the United States. He also wrote critically in support of many American writers. It is perhaps in this role that he had his greatest influence.
Iron and Steel in the Industrial Revolution
Author: Thomas Southcliffe Ashton
Publisher: Manchester : University Press
ISBN:
Category : Iron
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Publisher: Manchester : University Press
ISBN:
Category : Iron
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Papers on Iron and Steel, Practical and Experimental: a Series of Original Communications Made to the Philosophical Magazine
Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781609441456
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Shaw characterizes Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction as a "Brief tragedy," which, of course, the reader or spectator immediately discovers that Shaw is having us on. One might more rightly describe this play about vanity, jealousy, and murder as ridiculous or even-dare we say it-an antecedent to the Theatre of the Absurd. The play is a world unto itself-tomfoolery from beginning to end. Consequently, the frivolity is its virtue. Tragedy turned on its head. May you laugh yourself silly.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781609441456
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Shaw characterizes Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction as a "Brief tragedy," which, of course, the reader or spectator immediately discovers that Shaw is having us on. One might more rightly describe this play about vanity, jealousy, and murder as ridiculous or even-dare we say it-an antecedent to the Theatre of the Absurd. The play is a world unto itself-tomfoolery from beginning to end. Consequently, the frivolity is its virtue. Tragedy turned on its head. May you laugh yourself silly.
Indian Trails of the Southeast
Author: William Edward Myer
Publisher: J. Crutchfield Publishers
ISBN: 9781934314111
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher: J. Crutchfield Publishers
ISBN: 9781934314111
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The Natural History of Stafford-shire
Author: Robert Plot
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
The Staffordshire Encyclopaedia
Author: Tim Cockin
Publisher: Malthouse Press
ISBN: 9780953901807
Category : Staffordshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 771
Book Description
Publisher: Malthouse Press
ISBN: 9780953901807
Category : Staffordshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 771
Book Description
Silence Broken
Author: Dai Sil Kim-Gibson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Worcestershire Place Names
Author: W. H. Duignan
Publisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789354000331
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Publisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789354000331
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.