William Dean Howells

A Modern Instance (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An unflinching portrait of an unhappy marriage, A Modern Instance examines a couple's personal conflicts as the effects of commercial progress and rapid changes in social and religious institutions. Howells's novel ends with the hero barred by his over-scrupulous conscience from marrying the divorced heroine.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Barnes & Noble
• Seitenzahl: 524
• Altersempfehlung: ab 0 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781411440494
• Artikelnr.: 50390178

Autorenporträt

William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American novelist and critic. He edited the Atlantic Monthly from 1871-1881, where he championed literary realism and advanced the careers of such important American writers as Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, and Henry James. His best known novel is The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885).