Author:William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells
(1837–1920)

William Dean Howells

Works

The following list of works and their categorisation is derived from the bibliography in William Dean Howells: A Critical Study (1922), by Delmar Gross Cooke. (external scan) All works listed are available on Internet Archive.

Novels

• Their Wedding Journey (1872)
• A Chance Acquaintance (1873) (external scan)
• A Foregone Conclusion (1875) (external scan)
• The Lady of the Aroostook (1879) (external scan)
• The Undiscovered Country (1880)
• Dr. Breen's practice, a novel (1881)
• A Modern Instance (1882)
• A Woman's Reason; a novel (1883)
• The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885)
• Indian Summer (1886)
• The Minister's Charge, or The Apprenticeship of Lemuel Barker (1887)
• April Hopes (1888)
• Annie Kilburn; a novel (1888)
• A Hazard of New Fortunes; a novel (1889)
• The Shadow of a Dream; a story (1890)
• An Imperative Duty; a novel (1891)
• The Quality of Mercy; a novel (1892)
• The Coast of Bohemia; a novel (1893)
• The World of Chance; a novel (1893)
• A Traveler from Altruria (1894)
• The Day of their Wedding; a novel (1896)
• The Landlord at Lion's Head (1897)
• An Open-Eyed Conspiracy; an Idyl of Saratoga (1897)
• The Story of a Play; a novel (1898)
• Ragged Lady; a novel (1899)
• Their Silver Wedding Journey (1899), in 2 vols.
• The Kentons; a novel (1902)
• Letters Home (1903)
• The Son of Royal Langbrith (1904)
• Miss Bellard's Inspiration; a novel (1905)
• Through the Eye of a Needle; a romance (1907)
• Fennel and Rue; a novel (1908)
• New Leaf Mills: a Chronicle (1913)
• The Leatherwood God(1916)
• The Vacation of the Kelwyns; an idyl of the middle eighteen-seventies (1920)
• Mrs. Farrell, a novel (1921)

Plays

• The Parlor Car: a farce (1876)
• Out of the Question: a comedy (1877)
• A Counterfeit Presentment; comedy (1877)
• The Sleeping Car, a farce (1883)
• The Register; a farce (1884)
• The Elevator; a farce (1885)
• The Garroters; a farce (1886)
• A Sea-Change, or Love's Stowaway; a lyricated farce (1888)
• The Mousetrap, and other farces (1889)
• The Sleeping Car, and other farces (1890)
• The Albany Depot; a farce (1891)
• A Letter of Introduction; a farce (1892)
• The Unexpected Guests; a farce (1893)
• Evening Dress; a farce (1893)
• A Likely Story (1894)
• Five O'Clock Tea; a farce (1894)
• A Previous Engagement; comedy (1897)
• Room Forty-Five; a farce (1900)
• Bride Roses; a scene (1900)
• An Indian Giver; a comedy (1900)
• The Smoking Car; a farce (1900)
• Parting Friends: A Farce (1911)

Criticism

• Modern Italian Poets: Essays and Versions (1887)
• Criticism and Fiction (1891)
• My Literary Passions (1895)
• Literary Friends and Acquaintance: a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship (1900)
• Heroines of Fiction (1901), in 2 vols.
• Literature and Life: studies (1902)
• My Mark Twain: Reminiscences and Criticisms (1910)
• Imaginary Interviews (1910)

Travel writing

Page from Tuscan Cities (1886)

• Venetian Life (1866)
• Italian Journeys (1867)
• Three Villages (1884)
• Tuscan Cities (1886)
• A Little Swiss Sojourn (1892)
• The Niagara Book (1893), with Samuel Langhorne Clemens and others
• London Films (1905)
• Certain Delightful English Towns; with Glimpses of the Pleasant Country Between (1906) (start transcription)
• Roman Holidays and others (1908)
• Seven English Cities (1909)
• Familiar Spanish Travels (1913)
• The Seen and Unseen at Stratford-on-Avon: a Fantasy (1914)
• Hither and Thither in Germany (1920)

Sketches and stories

• Suburban Sketches (1871) (external scan)
• A Day's Pleasure and Other Sketches (1876)
• A Fearful Responsibility, and Other Stories (1881)
• Buying a Horse (1881)
• Christmas Every Day and other stories told for Children (1892)
• A Parting and a Meeting; a story (1896)
• Doorstep Acquaintance, and Other Sketches (1900)
• A Pair of Patient Lovers (1901)
• The Flight of Pony Baker; a Boy's Town story (1902)
• Questionable Shapes (1903)
• Between the Dark and the Daylight (1907)
• The Daughter of the Storage and Other Things in Prose and Verse (1916)

Poetry

• Poems of Two Friends (1860), co-authored with John James Piatt
• The Poets and Poetry of the West (1860), contains six poems and four biographical notices by William Dean Howells.
• No Love Lost: a Romance of Travel (1869)
• Poems (1873, editions in 1885 and 1901)
• Stops of Various Quills (1895), with illustrations by Howard Pyle.
• The Mother and the Father; dramatic passages (1909)
• "Pleasure-Pain"
• "The Little Children", in The Book of the Homeless (1916)
• "The Passengers of a Retarded Submersible", in A Treasury of War Poetry, ... 1914-1919 (1917)

Miscellaneous

• Lives and speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin (1860), co-authored with John Lord Hayes [Howells wrote the life of Lincoln]
• A Little Girl among the Old Masters (1884)
• Stories of Ohio (1897)
• The Howells Story Book (1900)
• Mulberries in Pay's Garden (1907)
• Boy Life (1909)

Autobiographical interest

• A Boy's Town (1890)
• My Year in a Log Cabin (1893)
• "Introduction" to Recollections of Life in Ohio. 1813-1840 (1895), by William Cooper Howells
• Impressions and Experiences (1896)
• Years of My Youth (1916)

Contributions to others' works

• “Introduction,” The Children's Plutarch: Tales of the Greeks (1910)
• “Introduction,” The Children's Plutarch: Tales of the Romans (1910)
• (ed.) The Great Modern American Stories (1920)

Works from magazines

Howells contributed many articles to newspapers and periodicals in his earlier career as a journalist, as well as many thereafter. No attempt has been made to list them. A selection of the more significant ones is included in the bibliography referred to above.

• “Carl Schurz 1829-1906,” Harper's Weekly (1906)
• "The Boarders" in Harper's Magazine, Mar 1916
• "In Charleston" in Harper's Magazine, Oct 1915
• "The Eidolons of Brooks Alford" in Harper's Magazine, Aug 1906
• "An Experience" in Harper's Magazine, Nov 1915
• "In Folkestone out of Season" in Harper's Magazine, Nov 1915
• "Kentish Neighborhoods Including Canterbury" in Harper's Magazine, Sep 1906
• "The White Mr. Longfellow" in Harper's Magazine, Aug 1896

Works about Howells

• "Howells, William Dean," by Charles Dudley Warner in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1892)
• "Howells, William Dean, D.Litt.," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Howells, William Dean," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "For the Birthday of William Dean Howells" (1912), a poem by Florence Earle Coates in honor of Howells' 75th birthday.^[1]
• "Howells, William Dean," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Mr. Howells" by Booth Tarkington, in Harper's Magazine, Aug 1920
• "Howells, William Dean," in Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed., 1922)

References

1. See also "A Traveller from Altruria", a poem also by Mrs. Coates (published as "The Singer" in Poems Vol. II) based on Howells' novel.