The complete online text of The Sleeping-Car, a farce 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...

Drunken man sleeping in car rightly convicted, court says By PETER MALLER pmaller@journalsentinel.com, Journal Sentinel Thursday, December 11, 2003 Germantown -- An intoxicated man who was sleeping in a parked vehicle when police arrived was rightly convicted of drunken driving, the...

One of the stewards on the London-Fort William sleeping car is a short, plumpish woman who bustled in and out of the first class cabins as they were vacated at journey's end last week. She seemed almost too preoccupied with her work to answer...