William Dean Howells Summary
Thomas More

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Thomas More Biographies (10)

9,463 words, approx. 32 pages
Sir Thomas More is--in the phrase associated with him since the early sixteenth century--a man for all seasons. World renowned as the author of Utopia (1516), he wrote humanist, polemical, and spiritu... Read more
3,762 words, approx. 13 pages
Sir Thomas More's place in the history of rhetoric and logic is secure for two reasons. First, he enacted the "new learning" of the studia humanitatis, translating and transforming ancient literature ... Read more
1,071 words, approx. 4 pages
The life of the English humanist and statesman Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) exemplifies the political and spiritual upheaval of the Reformation. The author of "Utopia," he was beheaded for opposing the... Read more
1,475 words, approx. 5 pages
William Dean Howells (1837-1920), American writer and editor, was an influential critic and an important novelist of the late 19th century.William Dean Howells's career spanned a period of radical cha... Read more
17,384 words, approx. 58 pages
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. ... Read more
6,416 words, approx. 22 pages
William Dean Howells was known from the 1880s to his death in 1920 as the preeminent literary realist in America. Though Howells was a part of the international realism movement, his was essentially ... Read more
1,845 words, approx. 7 pages
The son of a Welsh father, William Cooper Howells, and an Irish-German mother, Mary Dean Howells, William Dean Howells was born in Martin's Ferry in Belmont County, Ohio, the second of eight children.... Read more
2,426 words, approx. 9 pages
William Dean Howells , on his odyssey from self-educated printer's devil to critic, novelist, and preeminent arbiter of American letters, passed through the offices of the Atlantic Monthly during the ... Read more
8,159 words, approx. 28 pages
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... Read more
18,443 words, approx. 62 pages
Biography EssayWilliam 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 cen... Read more
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