The complete online text of The Lady of the Aroostook 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...

BANGOR - The Woodland High School girls basketball team opened defense of their state Class D championship in impressive fashion at the Bangor Auditorium Monday morning. The Dragons received 21 points, eight rebounds and two blocked shots from senior center Julia Knights and...

PRESQUE ISLE - Heading into the third year of their annual sing- off competition, local United Way of Aroostook officials weren't sure how many people would want to take part in Aroostook Idol this time around. But Jason Parent, chairman of the fundraiser's...