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The Rise of Silas Lapham
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William Dean Howells |
The Rise of Silas Lapham is a novel written by William Dean Howells in 1885 about the materialistic rise of Silas Lapham from rags to riches, and his ensuing moral susceptibility. Silas earns a fortu… |
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Cliffsnotes Rise of Silas Lapham
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William Dean Howells |
A greedy, unscrupulous man loses his business and lover. In his humility he begins to think of others and makes not a material, but spiritual and ethical rise. This is a book of tragicomedy, romantic… |
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The Horse Story Megapack
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Katherine Mayo,F. Anstey,Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.,Bret Harte,Henry Lawson,William Henry Harrison Murray,Arthur Conan Doyle,Mary Wickizer Burgess,Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen,Mark Twain,Ambrose Bierce,William Butler Yeats,Adam White,Amy Steedman,William Dean Howells,Jonathan Swift,Anna Sewell,Thomas Bingley,John Hay,Robert Reginald,Sewell Ford,George Bird Grinnell,Voltaire,Djuna Barnes,H. Beam Piper,A. B. Paterson,Plutarch,Eugene Field,William Hope Hodgson,Mark E. Burgess |
The horse has been championed throughout history as a war machine, a means of transport, an adjunct to farming, a source of popular entertainment, and, finally, as a true friend and companion. So it'… |
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A fearful responsibility
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William Dean Howells |
255 pages ; 23 cm |
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The great modern American stories
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Mark Twain,Edith Wharton,Ambrose Bierce,William Dean Howells,Theodore Dreiser,W.D. Howells |
Contains:
A reminiscent introduction / William Dean Howells --
My double; and how he undid me / Edward Everett Hale --
Circumstance / Harriet Prescott Spofford --
The celebrated jumping frog of C… |
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Christmas every day
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William Dean Howells,Charles River Editors |
A father tells a tale of a little girl who begs the Christmas fairy to revoke her wish and restore Christmas to once a year after she discovers that Christmas every day is too much of a good thing. |
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Years of my youth
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William Dean Howells |
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was possibly Ohio’s greatest literary figure. His father migrated to Ohio by flatboat and keelboat, and moved about within Ohio often as he followed his trade of prin… |
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The Kentons
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William Dean Howells |
From the book:The Kentons were not rich, but they were certainly richer than the average in the pleasant county town of the Middle West, where they had spent nearly their whole married life. As their… |
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Their wedding journey
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William Dean Howells |
From the book:They first met in Boston, but the match was made in Europe, where they afterwards saw each other; whither, indeed, he followed her; and there the match was also broken off. Why it was b… |
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