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William Dean Howells
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As a prominent novelist, critic and editor, William Dean Howells played an essential role in shaping the American literary sensibility of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, particularly the shift toward naturalism and realism. In this, his most widely read series of essays on literature, Howells lays out his view of the superiority of realistic fiction.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 97 ● ISBN 9781776676347 ● Publisher The Floating Press ● Published 2017 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5384151 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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