The complete online text of Staccato Notes of a Vanished Summer (from Literature and Life) 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...

These are the slinky days of summer, when many birds seem to vanish from the world. No longer can you locate a scarlet tanager in those high maples by its burry, robin-with-a-cold song. In fact, other than a brief early dawn window of...

Kanye West puts staccato beat to everyday life By JON M. GILBERTSON Special to the Journal Sentinel Tuesday, March 30, 2004 As befits a successful hip-hop artist, Kanye West kept the crowd waiting at the Eagles Ballroom Sunday night. Must be...