The complete online text of Roundabout to Boston (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) 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...

Todd Haimes is leaving the Roundabout Theater Co. after 15 years of service as artistic director, then managing director. Haimes presence will be dearly missed, and the company is tentative about the era that is to follow without him. Whither Roundabout now? That's...

Aroundabout could eliminate one of Manitowoc's most dangerous and confusing intersections and ease traffic flow, city officials believe. The Manitowoc city council is expected to support a state Department of Transportation-approved roundabout at the intersection of Waldo Boulevard, Maritime and Memorial drives, which becomes...