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He had come to meet Fields’s young assistant, a moist, bookish fellow by the name of William Dean Howells.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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He had come to meet Fields’s young assistant, a moist, bookish fellow by the name of William Dean Howells.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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The great man of letters William Dean Howells wrote in "Stories of Ohio" 1897 that if Chapman was right in his Swedenborgian belief that we are encircled by spirits that reflect our own behavior, then "this harmless, loving, uncouth, half-crazy man walked daily with the angels of God."
A Pro-Growth Strategy Bill Kauffman 2011
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When the 1956 film "The King and I," set in Siam and starring Yul Brynner, incorporated the hilarious rendering of a ballet titled "Small House of Uncle Thomas," it was a typically incoherent destiny for a book that, as William Dean Howells once declared, had "moved the whole world more than any other."
The Novel That Changed America Fergus M. Bordewich 2011
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"I look forward to following in the tradition of William Dean Howells, Bernard DeVoto, and Lewis Lapham."
Thomas Frank Joins Harper's Magazine From Wall Street Journal 2010
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William Dean Howells was the first to call its author "the divine Jane."
Book review: 'Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World,' by Claire Harman Dennis Drabelle 2010
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A century ago, William Dean Howells wrote: "What a thing it is to have a country that can't be wrong, but if it is, is right, anyway!"
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" The depth of that disgust was clear when he wrote to his friend William Dean Howells about " the author-cat " raking dust over every noisome revelation, " which hides from the disinterested spectator neither it nor its smell . . . the result being that the reader knows the author in spite of his wily diligences.
The Adventures of Samuel Clemens Edmund Morris 2010
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A century ago, William Dean Howells wrote: "What a thing it is to have a country that can't be wrong, but if it is, is right, anyway!"
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A century ago, William Dean Howells wrote: "What a thing it is to have a country that can't be wrong, but if it is, is right, anyway!"
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