The complete online text of Cambridge Neighbors (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...

Hey, Boston - latest entrant in the condo conversion permitting game -- Brookline and Cambridge have a message for you. Good luck. In the 10 years or so since Boston's neighbors adopted regulations requiring apartment building owners to get a permit before...

Kathy Martin says she can feel her Galen Street house start to shimmy when the 18-wheeled behemoths approach in the dark. As their throaty diesel roar increases, it is accompanied on percussion by theclatter of her shaking windows. Over the summer, a framed poster...