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A collected edition assembling novels, short stories, essays, travel sketches, criticism, and juvenile pieces by a single author, emphasizing realist depiction of everyday life and social observation. The fiction covers family and small-town narratives, boyhood adventures, and moral sketches; essays and reviews offer literary and cultural commentary; travel writing conveys impressions of European cities and landscapes; and brief sketches provide humor and local color. Works are grouped for easy browsing and reproduce original tables of contents to reflect the range of genres and modes represented.

RAGGED LADY.



By William Dean Howells






THE LANDLORD AT LION'S HEAD



By William Dean Howells








THE WHOLE FAMILY,

A NOVEL BY TWELVE AUTHORS



By William Dean Howells, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman,
Mary Heaton Vorse, Mary Stewart Cutting, Elizabeth Jordan,
John Kendrick Bangs, Henry James, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps,
Edith Wyatt, Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, Alice Brown, Henry Van Dyke



CONTENTS


I. THE FATHER, by William Dean Howells

II. THE OLD-MAID AUNT, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

III. THE GRANDMOTHER, by Mary Heaton Vorse

IV. THE DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, by Mary Stewart Cutting

V. THE SCHOOL-GIRL, by Elizabeth Jordan

VI. THE SON-IN-LAW, by John Kendrick Bangs

VII. THE MARRIED SON, by Henry James

VIII.    THE MARRIED DAUGHTER, By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

IX. THE MOTHER, by Edith Wyatt

X. THE SCHOOL-BOY, By Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews

XI. PEGGY, by Alice Brown

XII. THE FRIEND OF THE FAMILY, by Henry Van Dyke












VENETIAN LIFE

By William Dean Howells



CONTENTS

ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

CHAPTER II.

CHAPTER III.

CHAPTER IV.

CHAPTER V.

CHAPTER VI.

CHAPTER VII.

CHAPTER VIII.

CHAPTER IX.

CHAPTER X.

CHAPTER XI.

CHAPTER XII.

CHAPTER XIII.

CHAPTER XIV.

CHAPTER XV.

CHAPTER XVI.

CHAPTER XVII.

CHAPTER XVIII.

CHAPTER XIX.

CHAPTER XX.

CHAPTER XXI.

CHAPTER XXII.





DETAILED CONTENTS.

I. Venice in Venice
II. Arrival and first Days in Venice
III. The Winter in Venice
IV. Comincia far Caldo
V. Opera and Theatres
VI. Venetian Dinners and Diners
VII. Housekeeping in Venice
VIII. The Balcony on the Grand Canal
IX. A Day-Break Ramble
X. The Mouse
XI. Churches and Pictures
XII. Some Islands of the Lagoons
XIII. The Armenians
XIV. The Ghetto and the Jews of Venice
XV. Some Memorable Places
XVI. Commerce
XVII. Venetian Holidays
XVIII. Christmas Holidays
XIX. Love-making and Marrying; Baptisms and Burials
XX. Venetian Traits and Characters
XXI. Society
XXII. Our Last Year in Venice
Index









LONDON FILMS

BY W. D. HOWELLS



CONTENTS

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II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

XII

XIII

XIV

XV

XVI

XVII

XVIII

XIX

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List of Illustrations

Fleet Street and St. Dunstan's Church

The Carriages Drawn up Beside the Sacred Close

Sunday Afternoon, Hyde Park

Rotten Row.

A Block in the Strand.

St. Paul's Cathedral.

Westminster Abbey.

The Horse Guards, Whitehall

Westminster Bridge and Clock Tower.

A House-boat Ox the Thames at Henley.

The Crowd of Sight-seers at Henley

The Tower of London.

St. Olave's, Tooley Street.

London Bridge.

The Ancient Church of St. Magnus.

The East India House of Charles Lamb's Time.

Church of the Dutch Refugees.

Bow-bells (st. Mary-le-bow, Cheapside).

Staple Inn, Holborn.

Clifford's Inn Hall.

Ancient Church of St. Martins-in-the-fields.

Hyde Park in October.

Thames Embankment.












SUBURBAN SKETCHES

By William Dean Howells

Author Of “Venetian Life,” “Italian Journeys” Etc.



CONTENTS

MRS. JOHNSON

DOORSTEP ACQUAINTANCE

A PEDESTRIAN TOUR.

BY HORSE-CAR TO BOSTON

A DAY'S PLEASURE

A ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE

SCENE

JUBILEE DAYS

SOME LESSONS FROM THE SCHOOL OF MORALS.

FLITTING






Illustrations

“But I Suppose This Wine is Not Made of Grapes, Signor?”

“Looking About, I Saw Two Women.”

“The Young Lady in Black, Who Alighted at a Most Ordinary Little Street.”

“That Sweet Young Blonde, Who Arrives by Most Trains.”

“Frank and Lucy Stalked Ahead, With Shawls Dragging From Their Arms.”

“They Skirmish About Him With Every Sort of Query.”

“A Gaunt Figure of Forlorn and Curious Smartness.”

“The Spectacle As We Beheld It.”

“Vacant and Ceremonious Zeal.”









SEVEN ENGLISH CITIES

By W. D. Howells





CONTENTS

A MODEST LIKING FOR LIVERPOOL

SOME MERITS OF MANCHESTER

IN SMOKIEST SHEFFIELD

NINE DAYS’ WONDER IN YORK

TWO YORKISH EPISODES

A DAY AT DONCASTER AND AN HOUR OUT OF DURHAM

THE MOTHER OF THE AMERICAN ATHENS

ABERYSTWYTH, A WELSH WATERING-PLACE

LLANDUDNO, ANOTHER WELSH WATERING-PLACE

GLIMPSES OF ENGLISH CHARACTER




THE LEATHERWOOD GOD

By William Dean Howells



CONTENTS

PUBLISHER'S NOTE

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

THE LEATHERWOOD GOD

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V

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VII

VIII

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XI

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XVII

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List of Illustrations

Nancy Stood Staring at Her, With Words Beyond Saying In Her Heart—words That Rose in Her Throat and Choked Her

“You Believe, Maybe, That You Would Be Struck Dead if You Said the Things That I Do; But Why Ain't I Struck Dead?”

“It's my Cloth! I Spun It, I Wove It, Every Thread! It's All We've Got for Our Clothes This Winter!”

Now You Can See How It Feels to Have Your Own Husband Slap You.”

She Had Begun to Wash his Wound, Very Gently, Though She Spoke So Roughly, While he Murmured With the Pain and With The Comfort Of The Pain

They Swarmed Forward to the Altar-place and Flung Themselves on the Ground, and Heaped The Pulpit-steps With Their Bodies

“And he Went Down Ag'in, and when He Come up Ag'in, His Face Was All Soakin' Wet, Like He'd Been Crying Under the Water”