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Questionable Shapes

Questionable Shapes

William Dean Howells

In this collection of three longer stories, famed proponent of literary realism William Dean Howells flirts with the supernatural.
William Dean Howells and the Ends of Realism

William Dean Howells and the Ends of Realism

Paul Abeln

Despite efforts at revival by John Updike and others, William Dean Howells still remains in the shadows of his close friends Mark Twain and Henry James. This book works against decades of unfavorable comparisons with these literary giants.
William Dean Howells: A Writer’s Life

William Dean Howells: A Writer’s Life

Susan Goodman

This biography, the first comprehensive work on Howells in fifty years, enters the consciousness of the man and his times, revealing a complicated and painfully honest figure who came of age in an era of political corruption, industrial ...
Venetian Life

Venetian Life

William Dean Howells

"" "Venetian Life flows from the enchantment, the magical improbability of the years Howells spent in that magnificent city dining with the rich, mingling with the humble, and reporting on it all with a uniquely American wit and curiosity.
Howells: A Foregone Conclusion, A Modern Instance, Indian ...

Howells: A Foregone Conclusion, A Modern Instance, Indian ...

William Dean Howells

"Ah, how could he?" Colville insinuated, and the young girl colored. "I mean if I were pretty. This everlasting adulation is insulting." "Mr. Morton doesn't flatter," said Mrs. Bowen, thoughtfully, turning the feather screen she held at her face, now ...
The Measures of man: methodologies in biological anthropology

The Measures of man: methodologies in biological anthropology

William White Howells

This Festschrift in honor of William W. Howells demonstrates the vitality and methodological diversity that existed in the field of biological anthropology in the 1970s.
Suburban Sketches

Suburban Sketches

William Dean Howells

It was on a morning of the lovely New England May that we left the horse-car and spreading our umbrellas walked down the street to our new home in Charlesbridge through a storm of snow and rain so finely blent by the influences of this ...
A Modern Instance

A Modern Instance

William Dean Howells

This classic of American realism depicts a clash of old and new worlds. Its portrait of a failing marriage explores social and moral issues involving family life and women's traditional roles.
A Sleep and a Forgetting

A Sleep and a Forgetting

William Dean Howells

The story centers on a young "alienist"—a psychologist—who meets a young woman who, at subsequent encounters, has no recollection of him.
Getting Here: The Story of Human Evolution

Getting Here: The Story of Human Evolution

William White Howells

Renowned anthropologist, author, and educator Howells, draws together the latest from all of today's sciences to tell the fascinating story of man's evolution.
Who's Who in Skulls: Ethnic Identification of Crania from ...

Who's Who in Skulls: Ethnic Identification of Crania from ...

William White Howells

Utilizing and expanding the database presented in his earlier monographs Cranial Variation in Man and Skull Shapes and the Map, Howells develops methods for allocating a human skull to one of 28 modern populations for historical or forensic ...
Encyclopedia of the Victorian era

Encyclopedia of the Victorian era

James Eli Adams

ERNIE TEAGARDEN Dakota State University, Madison, South Dakota Thomas Alva Edison; Prisons JESSICA B. TEISCH University of California, Berkeley Horatio Alger; John James Audubon; William Dean Howells; Frederic Law Olmsted; ...
Black Soldier, White Army: The 24th Infantry Regiment in Korea

Black Soldier, White Army: The 24th Infantry Regiment in Korea

William T. Bowers

See Dean, General Dean's Story, pp. 11-12. 11 Ibid. Dean's story is told in Appleman, South to the Naktong, North to the Yalu, p. 177. 12 Intervs, John A. Cash with Bradley Biggs, 15 Aug 88; Walter Bufford, 13 Mar 89; Ellis Dean, 7 Aug 88; ...
Love, Mystery and Misery: Feeling in Gothic Fiction

Love, Mystery and Misery: Feeling in Gothic Fiction

Coral Ann Howells

Dr. Howells proposes a radical reassessment of these novels to emphasize their importance as experiments in imaginative writing.
Catalog

Catalog

University of Florida

... Dean of the General College WILLIAM EDGAR MOORE, M.A Acting University Examiner JOSEPH EDWIN PRICE, B.A.E Assistant Dean of Students THOMAS MARSHALL SIMPSON, Ph.D Dean of the Graduate School •OD leave of absence .
University Record ...

University Record ...

University of Florida

Provost for Agriculture JAMES WILLIAM NORMAN, Ph.D Dean of the College of Education BERT CLAIR RILEY, B.A., B.S.A _ Dean of the General Extension Division THOMAS MARSHALL SIMPSON, Ph.D Acting Dean of the Graduate School ...
Contemporary Canadian Women’s Fiction: Refiguring Identities

Contemporary Canadian Women’s Fiction: Refiguring Identities

C. Howells

contemporary cANADAN women's FICTION © Coral Ann Howells, 2003. ... Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Howells, Coral Ann. Contemporary Canadian women's fiction: refiguring identities / by Coral Ann Howells. P. cm.
Part of the Silence

Part of the Silence

Debbie Howells

The doctors and nurses? Or the mysterious figure who's been watching her, who knows all her secrets, has a hidden agenda--and perhaps their own twisted version of reality. Praise for the novels of Debbie Howells "A terrific new talent.
The Bones of You

The Bones of You

Debbie Howells

The Bones of You is a gripping psychological thriller from author Debbie Howells; a story of full of dark secrets, obsession and suspense.
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18 Cornelia DEAN HENRY, confection'r,741 B.way, h.741 B.way Dean Israel, late boarding, 71 Irving pl. Dean James, turner, 562 Hudson Dean James L. shoes, 151 Carmine Dean Jeremiah, oysters, 213 Spring, h, 213 Spring Dean John, ...
The Death of Her

The Death of Her

Debbie Howells

'This story holds you tight and then drops you like a stone' - Liz Nugent The Death of Her is a haunting psychological thriller from Debbie Howells, author of the bestselling Richard and Judy Book Club success The Bones of You.
University of Iowa Studies: Series on aims and progress of ...

University of Iowa Studies: Series on aims and progress of ...

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... Carl Emil Seashore, Dean of the Graduate College; Lee Wallace Dean, Dean of the College of Medicine ; Frank Thomas Breene, Dean of the College of Dentistry; Paul Clifford Packer, Dean of the College of Education; Edward Henry Lauer, ...

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