Howells: 452 books

“A nail-biter from British author Howells. . . . Fans of psychological thrillers will be rewarded.” *** —Publishers Weekly*** *** *** Remember the script. Sisters look out for each other. ** ** It’s been ten years since Hannah Roscoe saw her older sister, but that distance fades to nothing...

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Known as the "Dean of American Letters," author and editor William Dean Howells produced many novels and plays over the course of his august career. In the novel The Story of a Play, he ingeniously combines both genres, penning a tale about a romance between a woman and a journalist who dreams of becoming a famous playwright.

Published in 1893, The Coast of Bohemia features a female art student as its protagonist. The scenery and feel of the book is said to have been inspired by Howells’s early experiences at Pfaff’s, a beer cellar in New York that drew artists, playwrights, and writers.

Colours of Spring is a collection of short poems and photography inspired by the unfurling wonder of the natural world at springtime. Shot in the environs of Killerton House near Broadclyst, Devon, this collaboration between local photographer John Howells and poet Gill Kingsland was first...

This book is an unusually readable and lucid account of the development of Derrida's work, from his early writings on phenomenology and structuralism to his most recent interventions in debates on psychoanalysis, ethics and politics. Christina Howells gives a clear explanation of many of the...

"These essays take Baudelaire seriously as a thinker. Bernard Howells explores the problematics surrounding individualism and history in a number of prose texts, and situates Baudelaire within the broader contexts of nineteenth-century historical, cultural and artistic speculation, represented by Emerson, Carlyle, Joseph de Maistre, Giuseppe Ferrari and Eugene Chevreul."

Drawing on his own experience as an American diplomat in Venice, William Dean Howells' gripping novel Ragged Lady pits a Venetian vice-consul against a network of influential foes when he takes up the cause of a young woman who has been wrongfully denied her inheritance.

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the trend of forming utopian communities became prevalent across the United States. Several of William Dean Howells' novels gently satirized this movement; in Through the Eye of the Needle, an unlikely pair of utopian community dwellers fall in love.

A visitor from a utopian republic encounters a group of Americans—including a novelist, a banker, a lawyer, and a minister—at a fashionable summer resort in this 1894 satirical portrait of American life and government by William Dean Howells. A companion novel, Through the Eye of the Needle, would follow in 1907.

First published in 1987, this is an introductory study of the most widely read Canadian women novelists of the 1970s and 1980s. At its centre lies the question of how the search for a distinctive cultural identity relates to the need for a national cultural identity in the post-colonial era. Coral...

In a novel that combines family drama and a criminal pursuit, William Dean Howells takes a look at a father who commits a nefarious deed and then makes a quick getaway, leaving his innocent daughter behind to pick up the pieces and try to move on in the aftermath of the painful betrayal.

The Northeast is concerned over the expanding scope of minor electrical fluctuations that no one can explain. The problem started in a 300 bed chronic care facility, and the first investigator was Karl Hoffman, who traced the disturbances to a brain dead child, the last 'survivor' of a boating accident. Karl...