Good morning #booksky!

🔴 1896 Review of Paul Laurence Dunbar's second book, "Majors and Minors" by William Dean Howells in "Harper's Weekly" brings the poet to national attention

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Grateful for the chance to view precious letters from Henry James, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, & the complete manuscript of “The Quality of Mercy” (1891) from the Howells Archive at the Houghton Library. #williamdeanhowells #henryjames #edithwharton #marktwain #americanliterature #houghtonlibrary

Coming soon.

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"It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom."

✒️ #WilliamDeanHowells, American author, #DOTD 11 May 1920. #Literature

"The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested."

✒ #WilliamDeanHowells, American novelist, critic, and editor, was #BOTD 1 March 1837. #Literature

“We live, but a world has passed away
With the years that perished to make us men.” — William Dean Howells, The Mulberries
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#OTD in 1949
‘Christmas Every Day by William Dean Howells [1837-1920]’
Illustrated by Fred Banbery (1913-1999)
‘Ten Christmas Classics’ *Collier's – Christmas Annual* December 24, 1949
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #FredBanbery #WilliamDeanHowells