The complete online text of A Belated Guest (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) by William Dean Howells.

William Dean Howells, whose literary career began on the eve of the Civil War and ended after World War I, is one of the three most important American writers of the late nineteenth century. Samuel Langhorne Clemens and Henry James, both of whom were his...

William Dean Howells , whose literary career began on the eve of the Civil War and ended after World War I, is one of the three most important American writers of the late nineteenth century. Samuel Clemens and Henry James, both of whom were his close fr...

William Dean Howells combined a career as an important novelist with that of a journalist. As editor of The Atlantic Monthly and later as author of, or contributor to, the "Editor's Study" and "Editor's Easy Chair" columns in Harper's Monthly, he was an...

Reports that a brigade from the 2nd Infantry Division in Korea soon will be redeploying to Iraq may be the brightest spot in an otherwise dismal strategic picture. The 37,000-odd U.S. troops in Korea long have overstayed the need and their welcome. If drawing...

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 01-18-2008 Belated honor for soldier from N.J. -- Mother lobbied for memorial at Ga. base THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Date: 01-18-2008, Friday Section: NEWS Edtion: All Editions Suzette DeTulio cried, then smiled Thursday as...