The complete online text of Hazard of New Fortunes, a — Volume 3 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...

Three communities in the suburbs west of Boston Framingham, Waltham, and Watertown are environmentally "overburdened," a report by academic researchers has found. The report, which examined the number of hazardous waste sites, landfills, incinerators, industrial facilities, and power plants in every community statewide...

At least three persons died and more than 100 were injured here today when flames and fumes swept through a high-rise office building that recently had been declared a fire hazard. It was the third major blaze in the capital in the past week....