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etechne: For my fellow Lentventurers: William Dean Howells, Jean-Léon Gérome, Matthew S. Nelson and Dan Haseltine, and Ruby Amanfu.
runningmeows: "The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number."
-William Dean Howells, American - Author (1837-1920)
RBrookhiser: He wrote The Secret of Swedenborg. William Dean Howells quipped, "he kept it."
RBrookhiser: 35th. It was a block away from NR's old offices.
NB William James Sr. wrote a book The Secret of Swedenborg. William Dean Howells commented, "He kept it."
rgtrendsetter: Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.-William Dean Howells
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Cheaphi5976: I wish you to believe whatever you think is true, at any and every cost.,William Dean Howells, Editha,believe, editha, george, mgg, truth, william-dean-howells,
Indavisible: "If nothing else had come out of our life but this strange poetry, we should feel that in the work of Emily Dickinson, America, or New England rather, had made a distinctive addition to the literature of the world."
--William Dean Howells (1890)
pandeammu26: “The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.” —William Dean Howells
~ammu
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Fanny Fern’s Ruth Hall vs William Dean Howells’s The Rise of Silas Lapham
Roy_Wallen: Some people stay longer in an hour than others do in a month. – William Dean Howells, born on this date in 1837
Heartfelthisto1: On today's date March 1, 1837, writer William Dean Howells was born in present day Martins Ferry, Ohio.
During the American Civil War he was United States Consul to Venice, Italy.
Howells became the editor of the Atlantic Monthly and wrote over a hundred books in his lifetime.
platospupil: Tossing his mane of snows in wildest eddies and tangles,
Lion-like March cometh in, hoarse, with tempestuous breath.
–William Dean Howells (1837–1920), American novelist
bachbeethoven: March 1 otd
b. 1810 – Frédéric Chopin, Polish pianist and composer (d. 1849)
b. 1837 – William Dean Howells, American novelist, playwright, critic (d. 1920)
b. 1904 – Glenn Miller, American trombonist, composer, bandleader (d. 1944)
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Shearnerve: It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom. William Dean Howells
JohnMcDonald15: William Dean Howells (1837-1920)
If you want to get into the minds of U.S. Americans during the first couple of decades post-Civil War, his novels are a treasure.
kevblue777: Tossing his mane of snows in wildest eddies and tangles,
Lion-like March cometh in, hoarse, with tempestuous breath.
–William Dean Howells (1837–1920), American novelist
ontheNthday: On the 2,132,892nd day, God created William Dean Howells.
ii_meyer: Shout out to my English III students who presented about Realist author William Dean Howells--and brought cupcakes for the class because today is his birthday! Happy 186th and awesome job ladies.
lopps_1999: Tossing his mane of snows in wildest eddies and tangles,
Lion-like March cometh in, hoarse, with tempestuous breath.
–William Dean Howells (1837–1920), American novelist
bufocalvin: Happy bookish birthdays, 1 March, to: Ralph Ellison (Invisible Man), Nevada Barr (the Anna Pigeon mysteries), Jim Crace (Harvest), William Dean Howells (The Rise of Silas Lapham)...
mayadeanewriter: "there is more in heaven and earth than is dreamt of in your philosophy." (Specifically, the realist mode in literature is passe and I am over it. Let William Dean Howells collect his disciples. In this thread I will--)
RealEMBASSYKID: “[early] consular appointments were often used as a reward for authors…the U.S. Consular Service boasted such worthies as Nathanial Hawthorne, James Fennimore Cooper, Bret Harte, William Dean Howells, the cartoonist Thomas Nast…”
lavanyal1630: Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
- William Dean Howells
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lavanyal1630: Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
- William Dean Howells
Deekshith
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wirkman: Among common readers, William Dean Howells has a bad reputation, if one at all. I don’t know why.
From the 1998 Könemann edition of The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885):
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psabbb1: “originate it. How would you like to spend your old age reading books about contemporary life written in the pre-Joycean style of, say, Ruskin or William Dean Howells, or Taine?
Some geniuses come with heavy feet and march solemnly forward like Dreiser. Yet no one ever wrote-“
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cyberalgo: “The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.”
—William Dean Howells
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johnrambow: ‘If it had ever come into their way to sacrifice themselves for others, they thought they would have done so, but they never asked why it had not come their way.’--A Hazard of New Fortunes, William Dean Howells
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TomCrewe1: Others that might be on my list were I making it today: La Regenta by Leopoldo Alas; Une Vie by Maupassant; Indian Summer by William Dean Howells; Helen by Maria Edgeworth; 1893 by Victor Hugo; The Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith; On Tangled Paths by Theodor Fontane
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dean_frey: William Dean Howells by Jessie Tarbox Beals, 1908
DonPJenn: “Education defective,” it read. Primarily self-taught he read the Bible & Shakespeare avidly.
In an 1860 biography of candidate Lincoln, journalist William Dean Howells wrote that Mr. Lincoln was “a diligent student of Shakespeare, to know whom is a liberal education.”
librivox: Happy International Tea Day! Enjoy a cup, while listening to recordings about the world's greatest beverage.
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AceBlazewing: 'Stuck on Christmas', based on 'Christmas Every Day' by William Dean Howells, is a nice reminder that while Christmas is a wonderful time of year, there's a reason it's only once a year. Huey, Dewey, and Louie learned that the hard way.
vaprenderingles: Jimmy Scarecrow's Christmas - William Dean Howells
vaprenderingles: Christmas Every Day - William Dean Howells
amlitreader: Howells: "Well, once there was a little girl who liked Christmas so much that she wanted it to be Christmas every day in the year; as soon as Thanksgiving was over she began to send postal-cards to the old Christmas Fairy to ask if she mightn't have it."
patty_b_miranda: Every Sundays this month, I’ll be looking at adaptations of William Dean Howells’ classic Christmas short story Christmas Every Day. The first one is The Fairly OddParents’ Christmas episode from 2001. How does it fare out? Tune in tonight at 8:00 PM CST.
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zeynebfaiz: William Dean Howells, who was the first American author to bring a realistic aesthetic to the literature of the united state.
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amlitreader: William Dean Howells: "Well," the papa said, "once there were two little pumpkin seeds, and one was a good little pumpkin seed, and the other was bad--very proud, and vain, and ambitious."
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WikiHaikuBot: A haiku from the Wikipedia page "William Dean Howells":
their nine years there were
the longest period that
they stayed in one place
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AsterGlenn: More Gutenberg books! This time, William Dean Howells, otherwise known as “The Dean,” a colossus who bestrode American letters in the late 19th century. Probably straight, though I think his truest and tenderest love was for books.
firousi: "It is the still small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom."
William Dean Howells
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MdTouhidOfficia: The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
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DrBea: An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. - William Dean Howells
professorameri3: Essay of the Week is: I Talk of Dreams by William Dean Howells
QuoteDaily: "An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise." - William Dean Howells
richd77: "Some people stay longer in an hour than others do in a month."
-- William Dean Howells
RidgeWaIker: Does anyone read Hamlin Garland, Conrad Richter, or William Dean Howells anymore?
DreamOfVenice: “An English child in Venice, on seeing the Place St Mark for the first time, is said to have asked, ‘Pray, Mamma, are people allowed to see this every day, or only on Sundays?’”
William Dean Howells, Venetian Life, 1866
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PublicDomainRev: William Dean Howells' vision of a “one-class” socialist utopia, outlined in his novel A Traveler from Altruria (1894), has all people guaranteed a share of the national product on the condition they work at least three hours a day. Read it here:
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RockpathWV: “Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.” - William Dean Howells
UrTweetMyReply: “The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.“ - William Dean Howells
brian_esh73: William Dean Howells says Mark Twain‘s pieces about life on the Mississippi River were so engaging that they turned the contents of Howells‘ ice water pitcher muddy while he was reading them.
cafemysticsea: It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds,
not the deafening blasts of doom. William Dean Howells
blgtylr: The bookstore does not have…William Dean Howells or Buddenbrooks. We are a fallen nation.
artcrimeprof: Could not agree more re: Henry James, although I would add another suggestion for a remedy - read William Dean Howells.
DonPJenn: "In an 1860 biography of candidate Lincoln, journalist William Dean Howells wrote that Mr. Lincoln was “a diligent student of Shakespeare, to know whom is a liberal education.”
Tribble_Bait: Mark Twain had a lot of communist friends -- William Dean Howells and Helen Keller among them. He used to tell them this would happen.
nilesheckman: Traveling to foreign lands can result in life-changing discoveries. Such as a “caffè e latte” which was first said to be mentioned in writing in English in 1867 by novelist William Dean Howells in his work “Italian Journeys.”
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RockpathWV: “Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.” - William Dean Howells
realquickonce_: is it not yet too late to become the 21st century william dean howells
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LanceLaura1: “Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.”
William Dean Howells
RowanAshArt: Review: A Hazard of New Fortunes, William Dean Howells (1889)
Bookpod: 4 of 5 stars to A Sleep and a Forgetting by William Dean Howells
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BLFeed: AVAILABLE: The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells -
NFTMansa: You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up. -William Dean Howells
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iam_cups: The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
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JohnDryden85: A few notes about Grace Church, where this abomination took place.
1st, it appears in a minor work of American literature, William Dean Howells' 1889 A Hazard of New Fortunes.
Take a moment to read this:
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iam_cups: The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
-William Dean Howells
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iam_cups: The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
-William Dean Howells
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MichaelRafael84: “The doom is on us, as it is on you,
That nothing can undo;
And all in vain you warn:
As your fate is to die, our fate is to be born.” — William Dean Howells
ngadc: Instead, this takes place in the dilapidated back alleys of working-class neighborhoods.
Sargent's vision of Venice has much in common with those of American writers like William Dean Howells, who described the aura of mystery behind the city's popular tourist attractions.
Shadowman04: A Traveler from Altruria by William Dean Howells, 1968, Paperback
MaryMWalsh: illus. is Mildred & William Dean Howells in New York by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. There's a virtual tour at the link. All aficionados of 19th & early 20th C. American cultural history shouldn't miss!
belzpoems: William Dean Howells might be the most forgotten author in American history.
drstephensroka: How do you know if you made a difference with your students?
It’s when they have a 50 year reunion for you.
Thank you William Dean Howells Junior Students from the 1970’s.
I am blessed.
Shadowman04: A Traveler from Altruria by William Dean Howells, 1968, Paperback
AnecdotalWisdom: As Mark Twain and his good friend the writer William Dean Howells were leaving church one Sunday, it started to rain heavily. Howells looked up at the clouds and said, “Do you think it will stop?”
“It always has,” replied Twain.
