The complete online text of Fennel and Rue 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...

What it is: Florence or sweet fennel is a versatile vegetable that tastes of celery and sweet anise. Prized by the ancient Greeks and Romans, fennel was used to suppress hunger, aid digestion, and freshen breath. A member of the parsley family, this perennial...

SAMPLE THIS CELERY-LIKE MEDITERRANEAN DELIGHT THAT'S A WORTHY COMPLEMENT TO ANY MEAL Few vegetables boast historical athletic notoriety; yet the ancient Greek word for fennel was marathon. Even today, the length of a marathon (26.2 miles) dates to 490 BC, when an Athenian...