The complete online text of Hazard of New Fortunes, a — Volume 1 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...

Americans are constantly struggling for liberty and equality. Although these concepts at times complement each other, they often are in tension because they point to different directions. This is apparent in parents' choice to send their children to private schools where they feel their...

Writer and liberal William Dean Howells is honored not because his philosophy was an intellectual exception in the literary world, but because critics now choose to honor people who typify the historical moment in which they lived. Howells is most known for acting as...