A Modern Instance
$46.44
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
3 January 1984
Summary
The publication in 1882 of this classic book by “The Dean of American Letters” marked his transition from magazine editor and author of some mildly received comedies of manners, to leading American novelist and champion of realism in American literature. The story of Bartley Hubbard, a philandering, dishonest Boston journalist, and Marcia Gaylord, the wife who divorces him, is the first serious treatment of divorce in American literature. Although Howells had considered writing the novel for …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140390278 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140390278 |
| Author: | William Dean Howells, Edwin H. Cady |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 3 January 1984 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 28mm |
| Series: | Penguin American Library |
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About The Author
William Dean Howells
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was born in Martins Ferry, Ohio. His father was a printer and newspaperman, and the family moved frequently. Howells received schooling where he could and began learning the printer’s trade as a boy. By his teens, he was setting type for his own poetry.
Between 1856 and 1861, he worked as a reporter for the Ohio State Journal. Around this time, his poems began appearing in the Atlantic Monthly. His 1860 campaign biography of Abraham Lincoln led to an offer of the consulship in Venice, a position he held from 1861 to 1865. He married Elinor Gertrude Meade in Paris in 1862.
Upon returning to the United States in 1865, Howells worked in New York before moving to Boston to assist James T. Fields at the Atlantic Monthly. In 1871, he became the magazine’s editor-in-chief. In this role, he collaborated with many emerging writers, including Mark Twain and Henry James, who became close friends.
His first novel, Their Wedding Journey, was published in 1872. The Rise of Silas Lapham was serialized in Century Magazine before its book publication in 1885. A Hazard of New Fortunes followed five years later. Howells’s work as a critic, writer, and advocate for the new realism earned him the respected title of Dean of American Letters.
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