Sketches and Short Fiction
- “Editha”(1905) .Now at the Howells Society site.Also available in a .pdf format for easy printing.
- PDB Version for PalmPilot of “Editha,” Howells’s most frequently anthologized story (18K)
- “A Romance of Real Life” (Atlantic, March 1870)
- Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life)
- Between the Dark and the Daylight
- “Christmas Every Day” (HTML format; courtesy of Eric Eldred’s gift of e-texts to the Howells Society)
- “Christmas Every Day” (.PDB Version for PalmPilot; 7K)
- Defenders Of Democracy; contributions from representative other arts from our allies and our own country, ed. by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy
- “An East-Side Ramble” (from another site); (another version)
- Fennel and Rue
- “The Midnight Platoon” from Literature and Life. Includes links to Crane’s “An Experiment in Misery” and Dreiser’s “Curious Shifts of the Poor” from SIster Carrie.
- “Niagara Revisited: Twelve Years after Their Wedding Journey” The Atlantic Monthly. / Volume 51, Issue 307 (May 1883; page images at MOA)
- “A Pair of Patient Lovers,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (Nov. 1897)
- Quaint Courtships (as Editor)
- Spanish Prisoners of War (from Literature and Life)
- Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life)Contents: Worries of a Winter Walk — Summer Isles of Eden — Wild Flowers of the Asphalt — A Circus in the Suburbs — A She Hamlet — The Midnight Platoon — The Beach at Rockaway –Sawdust in the Arena — At a Dime Museum — American Literature in Exile — The Horse Show — The Problem of the Summer — Aesthetic NewYork Fifty-odd Years Ago — From New York into New England — The Art of the Adsmith — The Psychology of Plagiarism — Puritanism in American Fiction — The What and How in Art — Politics in American Authors – Storage — “Floating down the River on the O-hi-o”.
- Images from Writings of William Dean Howells
- Life at High Tide (as Editor)
- Southern Lights and Shadows (as Editor)
- Suburban Sketches (includes “A Romance of Real Life”)
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