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William Dean Howells (1837–1920)

Author of The rise of Silas Lapham

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Title	Copies	Reviews	Ratings	Average	Median	Std. dev.
The rise of Silas Lapham	878	5	92	3.50	3.50	0.95
A Hazard of New Fortunes	273	2	29	3.31	3.00	0.95
Indian Summer	161	1	15	4.03	4.00	0.72
A Modern Instance	184	1	15	3.63	3.50	0.83
Writing New York (Original Edition)	178	2	11	3.91	4.00	0.76
William Dean Howells : Novels 1875-1886: A Foregone Conclusion, A Modern Instance, Indian Summer, The Rise of Silas Laph	188		5	3.20	4.00	1.17
My Mark Twain	28		5	3.70	4.00	0.60
William Dean Howells : Novels 1886-1888 : The Minister's Charge / April Hopes / Annie Kilburn (Library of America)	137		4	2.38	2.50	0.96
A Sleep and a Forgetting	15		4	3.00	3.00
Christmas Every Day	38	1	1	5.00	5.00
Fennel And Rue: A Novel	3		1	2.00	2.00
roman holidays and others	3		1	3.00	3.00
The Leatherwood God	8	1	1	4.00	4.00
A letter of introduction: Farce	2		1	4.00	4.00
Christmas Every Day and Other Stories (Classic Reprint)	3		1	2.00	2.00
Annie Kilburn	3		1	3.00	3.00
The whole family : a novel by twelve authors	29		1	3.50	3.50
Selected Writings of William Dean Howells	2
Life in letters of William Dean Howells	1
My literary passions, criticism & fiction,	2
Dr. Breen's Practice	2
A Foregone Conclusion	3
Their Husbands' Wives: Harper's Novelettes	1
Christmas Everyday Gift Set	1
The Undiscovered Country	3
The Sleeping-Car: A Farce,	2
An Open-Eyed Conspiracy	5
The vacation of the Kelwyns; an idyl of the middle eighteen-seventies	1
Heroines of Fiction (Volume 2)	1
Heroines of Fiction (Volume 1)	1
An Imperative Duty	5
Certain Delightful English Towns With Glimpses of the Pleasant Country Between	2
Heroines of fiction	4
The Lady of the Aroostook	10
Literature and life	6
a woman's reason	2
Between the Dark & the Daylight	4
The Rise of Silas Lapham, Volume I	1
VENETIAN LIFE. VOLUME I ONLY	2
Their silver wedding journey	6
Mrs. Farrell: A Novel	3
L'estate di San Martino	1
Autobiography. Memoirs of Edward Gibbon, Esq.	1
The Albany Depot	2
My year in a log cabin	1
Bride Roses: A Scene	1
A likely story;	1
A Hazard of New Fortunes, V.2	1
European and American Masters	1
Complete March Family Trilogy	1
The story of a play; a novel	1
Poems	2
A Belated Guest (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)	1
The daughter of the storage, and other things in prose and verse	1
The Essential William Dean Howells Collection (15 books) [Illustrated]	1
The Register	1
The Garroters: A Farce	1
The Parlor Car	1
The Mother and the Father: Dramatic Passages	3
The Niagara Book	2
Doorstep acquaintance, and other sketches	1
The shadow of a dream	2
Boy's Town, A	6
A selected edition of W. D. Howells	2
Ragged lady; a novel	2
New Leaf Mills; a chronicle	1
Editha	1
Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life)	1
Little Miss Sojourn	2
Quaint courtships	1
Cambridge Neighbors: From Literary Friends and Acquaintance (World Cultural Heritage Library)	3
No love lost a romance of travel	1
A fearful responsibility	3
Italian Journeys, Vol. 1	1
The Son of Royal Langbrith.	2
The Altrurian romances	3
W. D. Howells as critic	2
The minister's charge : or, The apprenticeship of Lemuel Barker	3
The Quality of Mercy	5
Literary Friends and Acquaintance: A Personal Retrospect of American Authorship	20
Years of my youth, and three essays	1
The shadow of a dream, and An imperative duty	4
The Kentons	8
A counterfeit presentment and The parlour car	1
Stories of Ohio	7
A Chance Acquaintance, Illustrated	12
Shapes That Haunt the Dusk	3
Selected Short Stories Wm. Dean Howells	2
Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor (Volume IV)	3
Three villages	1
London Films	3
Life of Abraham Lincoln	6
Suburban Sketches	6
The coast of Bohemia; a novel	4
Italian Journeys	18
A Traveler from Altruria (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)	29
Selected literary criticism	8
A realist in the American theatre : selected drama criticism of William Dean Howells	2
Tuscan Cities	5
Venetian Life	36
Seven English Cities	5
Staging Howells : plays and correspondence with Lawrence Barrett	1
Their Wedding Journey	9
Criticism and Fiction	7
April hopes	7
Discovery of a genius: William Dean Howells and Henry James	1
Familiar Spanish Travels	3
The Landlord at Lion's Head	27
Criticiam and Fiction/The Responsibilities of the Novelist	1
Early Prose Writings Wm Dean Howells: 1853-1861	3
A pair of patient lovers	4
Questionable Shapes	5
Sketch of the life and character of Rutherford B. Hayes : also a biographical sketch of William A. Wheeler, with portrai	2
Buying A Horse (1916)	2
editor's study	1
the world of chance	1
Cliffsnotes Rise of Silas Lapham (Cliffs notes)	1
miss bellard's inspiration	1
Italian Journeys, Vol. 2	1
The Elevator	1
Though One Rose From The Dead	1
Letters home	1
Years of My Youth	5
Undiscovered Country-Volume 2	1
The Day of Their Wedding	2
The Great Modern American Stories: An Anthology	7
The Mouse-Trap	4
Venetian Life: In Two Volumes, Vol. II	1
Through the Eye of the Needle	7
the seen and unseen at stratford-on-avon: a fantasy	4
Five O'Clock Tea (1894)	2
A Day's Pleasure and Other Sketches	2
The Howells Story Book	1
Southern lights and shadows	2

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