In 1900 Howells took over the Easy Chair column at the back of Harper’s Magazine, and in these pieces he imagines visitors dropping in to talk with its occupant. They discuss novels and their readers, manners and money, women’s dress, holidays, war and the oddities of American life, in dialogues full of gentle irony.
Graceful, amusing commentary from the most influential American man of letters of his day. Download the free EPUB.