Suburban Sketches

Suburban Sketches
Author: William Dean Howells
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2015-01-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1633555593

William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885 novel The Rise of Silas Lapham is perhaps his best known, describing the rise and fall of an American entrepreneur in the paint business. His social views were also strongly reflected in the novels Annie Kilburn (1888) and A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890). While known primarily as a novelist, his short story "Editha" (1905) - included in the collection Between the Dark and the Daylight (1907) - appears in many anthologies of American literature. Howells also wrote plays, criticism, and essays about contemporary literary figures such as Ibsen, Zola, Verga, and, especially, Tolstoy, which helped establish their reputations in the United States. He also wrote critically in support of many American writers. It is perhaps in this role that he had his greatest influence.

Architecture and Suburbia

Architecture and Suburbia
Author: John Archer
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2005
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780816643035

Traces the evolution of the modern American dream house from seventeenth-century England to the present.

Reading London's Suburbs

Reading London's Suburbs
Author: G. Pope
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2015-12-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137342463

A study of London suburban-set writing, exploring the links between place and fiction. This book charts a picture of evolving themes and concerns around the legibility and meaning of habitat and home for the individual, and the serious challenges that suburbia sets for literature.