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William Dean Howells
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**William Dean Howells** (March 1, 1837 – May 11, 1920) was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of *The Atlantic Monthly*, as well as for the novels *The Rise of Silas Lapham* and *A Traveler from Altruria*, and the Christmas story *Christmas Every Day*, which was adapted into a 1996 film of the same name.
Books by William Dean Howells
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Life of Abraham Lincoln
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Years of my youth
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Letters home
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The Whole Family
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A hazard of new fortunes
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The Kentons
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Christmas every day
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The day of their wedding
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Editor's study
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My Mark Twain
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Their Husbands' Wives
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Heroines of fiction
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Criticism and fiction, and other essays
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The Rise of Silas Lapham
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Their Silver Wedding Journey
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The flight of Pony Baker
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Letters of an Altrurian traveller, 1893-94
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Staging Howells
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Doctor Breen's practice
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Ragged Lady [2/2]
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Ragged Lady [1/2]
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Between the Dark and the Daylight
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Pebbles, monochromes, and other modern poems, 1891-1916
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A fearful responsibility and other stories
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Annie Kilburn
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A boy's town
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Selected short stories of William Dean Howells
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My year in a log cabin
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Selected Mark Twain-Howells letters, 1872-1910
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The great modern American stories
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Novels 1875-1886
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Mrs. Farrell
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Fennel and Rue
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Their Wedding Journey
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