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The quality of mercy; a novel By: W .D. Howells: William Dean Howells ( March 1, 1837 - May 11, 1920) was an American realist novelist, literary criti

The quality of mercy; a novel By: W .D. Howells: William Dean Howells ( March 1, 1837 - May 11, 1920) was an American realist novelist, literary criti

Howells, W. D.

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General Fiction

ISBN10: 1548458791
ISBN13: 9781548458799
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 29 2017
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.39 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Willam Dean Howells was a novelist, short story writer, magazine editor, and mentor who wrote for various magazines, including the Atlantic Monthly and Harper's Magazine. In January 1866 James Fields offered him the assistant editor role at the Atlantic Monthly. Howells accepted after successfully negotiating for a higher salary, but was frustrated by Fields's close supervision. Howells was made editor in 1871, remaining in the position until 1881. In 1869 he first met Mark Twain, which began a longtime friendship. Even more important for the development of his literary style - his advocacy of Realism - was his relationship with the journalist Jonathan Baxter Harrison, who during the 1870s wrote a series of articles for the Atlantic Monthly on the lives of ordinary Americans. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1872, but his literary reputation took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which described the decay of a marriage. His 1885 novel The Rise of Silas Lapham is perhaps his best known, describing the rise and fall of an American entrepreneur of the paint business. His social views were also strongly represented in the novels Annie Kilburn (1888), A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890), and An Imperative Duty (1892). He was particularly outraged by the trials resulting from the Haymarket Riot. His poems were collected during 1873 and 1886, and a volume under the title Stops of Various Quills was published during 1895. He was the initiator of the school of American realists who derived, through the Russians, from Balzac and had little sympathy with any other type of fiction, although he frequently encouraged new writers in whom he discovered new ideas.......................

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