William Dean Howells (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
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William Dean Howells is known primarily as a novelist, especially for his two acknowledged masterpieces, The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) and A Hazard of New Fortunes (1889). He was also a distinguished journalist and editor, who presided for years over the “Editor’s Easy Chair” column for Harper’s Monthly. In Criticism and Fiction (1891) and My Literary Passions (1895) Howells expounded the principles that made him known as a champion of literary realism.
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