The complete online text of Literature and Life (Complete) 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...

Don't lose your magic elixir I t is said that a king once gave Solomon a precious vase containing an elixir of life, which would overcome dis I ease and restore youth. Many people who were sick and ailing begged the monarch...

M.E. SPRENGELMEYER, Scripps Howard News Service The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 09-21-2004 Completing the circle of life -- Indian museum brings closure for Colo. senator By M.E. SPRENGELMEYER, Scripps Howard News Service Date: 09-21-2004, Tuesday Section: NEWS Edtion: All Editions.=.Two Star B....