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Literature and Life

by William Dean Howells

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  1. 1Bibliographical
  2. 2The Man of Letters as a Man of Business
  3. 3I
  4. 4II
  5. 5III
  6. 6IV
  7. 7V
  8. 8VI
  9. 9VII
  10. 10VIII
  11. 11IX
  12. 12X
  13. 13XI
  14. 14Confessions of a Summer Colonist
  15. 15I
  16. 16II
  17. 17III
  18. 18IV
  19. 19The Editor’s Relations With the Young Contributor
  20. 20I
  21. 21II
  22. 22III
  23. 23IV
  24. 24V
  25. 25VI
  26. 26Last Days in a Dutch Hotel
  27. 27I
  28. 28II
  29. 29III
  30. 30IV
  31. 31V
  32. 32VI
  33. 33VII
  34. 34VIII
  35. 35Some Anomalies of the Short Story
  36. 36I
  37. 37II
  38. 38III
  39. 39IV
  40. 40V
  41. 41VI
  42. 42Spanish Prisoners of War
  43. 43I
  44. 44II
  45. 45III
  46. 46IV
  47. 47American Literary Centres
  48. 48I
  49. 49II
  50. 50III
  51. 51IV
  52. 52V
  53. 53The Standard Household-Effect Company
  54. 54I
  55. 55II
  56. 56Staccato Notes of a Vanished Summer
  57. 57I
  58. 58II
  59. 59III
  60. 60IV
  61. 61V
  62. 62Worries of a Winter Walk
  63. 63I
  64. 64II
  65. 65III
  66. 66Summer Isles of Eden
  67. 67I
  68. 68II
  69. 69III
  70. 70IV
  71. 71Wild Flowers of the Asphalt
  72. 72I
  73. 73II
  74. 74III
  75. 75IV
  76. 76A Circus in the Suburbs
  77. 77I
  78. 78II
  79. 79III
  80. 80IV
  81. 81A She Hamlet
  82. 82I
  83. 83II
  84. 84III
  85. 85The Midnight Platoon
  86. 86I
  87. 87II
  88. 88III
  89. 89IV
  90. 90V
  91. 91The Beach at Rockaway
  92. 92I
  93. 93II
  94. 94III
  95. 95IV
  96. 96V
  97. 97VI
  98. 98Sawdust in the Arena
  99. 99I
  100. 100II
  101. 101III
  102. 102At a Dime Museum
  103. 103I
  104. 104II
  105. 105American Literature in Exile
  106. 106I
  107. 107II
  108. 108The Horse Show
  109. 109I
  110. 110II
  111. 111III
  112. 112IV
  113. 113The Problem of the Summer
  114. 114I
  115. 115II
  116. 116III
  117. 117Aesthetic New York Fifty-Odd Years Ago
  118. 118I
  119. 119II
  120. 120From New York Into New England
  121. 121I
  122. 122II
  123. 123III
  124. 124IV
  125. 125V
  126. 126The Art of the Adsmith
  127. 127I
  128. 128II
  129. 129III
  130. 130The Psychology of Plagiarism
  131. 131I
  132. 132II
  133. 133Puritanism in American Fiction
  134. 134I
  135. 135II
  136. 136The What and the How in Art
  137. 137I
  138. 138II
  139. 139III
  140. 140Politics of American Authors
  141. 141I
  142. 142II
  143. 143III
  144. 144IV
  145. 145Storage
  146. 146I
  147. 147II
  148. 148III
  149. 149IV
  150. 150“Floating Down the River on the O-Hi-o”
  151. 151I
  152. 152II
  153. 153III
  154. 154IV
  155. 155V
  156. 156VI
  157. 157My Literary Passions
  158. 158Bibliographical
  159. 159I — The Bookcase at Home
  160. 160II — Goldsmith
  161. 161III — Cervantes
  162. 162IV — Irving
  163. 163V — First Fiction and Drama
  164. 164VI — Longfellow’s “Spanish Student”
  165. 165VII — Scott
  166. 166VIII — Lighter Fancies
  167. 167IX — Pope
  168. 168X — Various Preferences
  169. 169XI — Uncle Tom’s Cabin
  170. 170XII — Ossian
  171. 171XIII — Shakespeare
  172. 172XIV — Ik Marvel
  173. 173XV — Dickens
  174. 174XVI — Wordsworth, Lowell, Chaucer
  175. 175XVII — Macaulay
  176. 176XVIII — Critics and Reviews
  177. 177XIX — A Non-Literary Episode
  178. 178XX — Thackeray
  179. 179XXI — “Lazarillo de Tormes”
  180. 180XXII — Curtis, Longfellow, Schlegel
  181. 181XXIII — Tennyson
  182. 182XXIV — Heine
  183. 183XXV — De Quincey, Goethe, Longfellow
  184. 184XXVI — George Eliot, Hawthorne, Goethe, Heine
  185. 185XXVII — Charles Reade
  186. 186XXVIII — Dante
  187. 187XXIX — Goldoni, Manzoni, D’Azeglio
  188. 188XXX — “Pastor Fido,” “Aminta,” “Romola,” “Yeast,” “Paul Ferroll”
  189. 189XXXI — Erckmann-Chatrian, Bjorstjerne Bjornson
  190. 190XXXII — Tourguenief, Auerbach
  191. 191XXXIII — Certain Preferences and Experiences
  192. 192XXXIV — Valdes, Galdos, Verga, Zola, Trollope, Hardy
  193. 193XXXV — Tolstoy
  194. 194Criticism and Fiction
  195. 195I
  196. 196II
  197. 197III
  198. 198IV
  199. 199V
  200. 200VI
  201. 201VII
  202. 202VIII
  203. 203IX
  204. 204X
  205. 205XI
  206. 206XII
  207. 207XIII
  208. 208XIV
  209. 209XV
  210. 210XVII
  211. 211XVIII
  212. 212XIX
  213. 213XX
  214. 214XXI
  215. 215XXII
  216. 216XXIII
  217. 217XXIV
  218. 218XXV
  219. 219XXVI
  220. 220XXVII

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