The complete online text of Roman Holidays, and Others 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...

Rome Another bride, another groom, another sunny honeymoon, another season, another reason, for making whoopee. . . Like the song by Sammy Kahn, we made whoopee in Rome last weekend, the excuse being -- yes, you guessed it -- a wedding. Il...

Let's try a game--something like those "which does not belong" quizzes in elementary school--think of a great period for art in Rome. Ancient Rome. Yes, obviously. Medieval Rome. Yes, although there isn't much of it left. Renaissance Rome. Of course. Baroque Rome. Self-evident....