Written when Howells was nearly eighty, this 1916 miscellany gathers short stories, sketches, verse and table-talk essays. The title story finds romance in a furniture warehouse; others include a riverboat captain’s final run, a farm with a black cross, uncanny presentiments, and a satirical visit to a bookshop that guarantees the quality of every book it sells.
A relaxed, wry late harvest from the champion of American realism and the editor who launched a generation of writers. Download the free EPUB.