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Novels 1875-1886

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Tales of
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Novels and Social Writings (Iron Heel / John Barleycorn / Martin Eden / People of the Abyss / Road)
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Novellas and Other Writings (Backward Glance / Ethan Frome / Madame de Treymes / Mother's Recompense / Old New York / Summer)
#54
Sea Tales
#119
Plays 1937 - 1955
#169
Novels, 1956-1964
#209
Novels, 1970-1982
History, tales, and sketches
Essays & lectures
Essays and reviews
Novels, Mont Saint Michel, The education
Redburn / White-Jacket / Moby-Dick
Crime Stories and Other Writings
Benjamin Franklin: Silence Dogood, Busy-Body
Collected poems and translations
LITTLE WOMEN TRILOGY
Novels and essays
Novels, 1920-1925
Stories and early novels
Nature writings
Complete poetry and collected prose
The grapes of wrath and other writings, 1936-1941 (Grapes of Wrath / Harvest Gypsies / Long Valley / Sea of Cortez)
Crime Novels
Novels, 1930-1935
Poems and other writings
Collected Plays 1944-1961 (All My Sons / Crucible / Death of a Salesman / Enemy of the People / Man Who Had All the Luck / Memory of Two Mondays / Misfits / View from the Bridge)
Autobiography / Poor Richard / Later Writings
Three western narratives
Collected travel writings
Novels and Stories (Call of the Wild / Sea-Wolf / White Fang / Short Stories)
Mardi / Omoo / Typee
A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers ; Walden, or, Life in the woods ; The Maine woods ; Cape Cod
Travel books and other writings
Later novels and other writings
Novels, 1936-1940
Speeches and writings, 1832-1858
Novels & Stories, 1959-1962 (Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories / Letting Go)
Novels 1875-1886
Stories, poems, and other writings
Film writing and selected journalism
Fanshawe / The Scarlet Letter / The House of the Seven Gables / The Blithedale Romance / The Marble Faun
The Debate on the Constitution
Writings 1902-1910
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~20h 17min
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Library of America 3 views
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0521262119, 9780521262118
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Hardcover
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William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells (March 1, 1837 – May 11, 1920) was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, as well as for the novels The Rise of Silas Lapham and A Traveler from Altruria, and the Christmas story Christmas Every Day, which was adapted into a 1996 film of the same name.

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