ISBN10: 0940450518, ISBN13: 9780940450516, [publisher: The Library of America, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. William Dean Howells was the foremost champion of realism in late-nineteenth-century American fiction. The three novels in this Library of America volume perceptively and often satirically examine the conflict between Christian ideals and commercial success, the contrast between a society's rituals of courtship and the realities of love, and the way in which a community's democratic aspirations are contradicted by its class divisions.InThe Minister's Charge(1886), Lemuel Barker leaves his impoverished farm and comes to Boston hoping to become a published poet. Proud, innocent, and implacably honest, he is quickly plunged into the humiliating depths of urban homelessness. His plight weighs on the conscience of David Sewell, a minister who could not bear to tell Barker how bad his poetry was. As he witnesses Lemuel's attempts to live a dignified life in a city marked by cruel indifference and unexpected kindness, Sewell must confront the "complicity" he shares in the fate of every member of his society.April Hopes(1887) was, by Howells's later recollection, the first novel that he wrote "with the distinct consciousness that he was writing as a realist." Alice Pasmer is the only daughter of parents whose dwindling investments have forced their return from Europe to New England. When Alice meets Dan Mavering, the ...

New York: Library of America. Date: 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0940450518 . Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. ; Library of America; 8.10 X 4.90 X 1.20 inches; 900 pages . 1989. Library of America ISBN 0940450518 9780940450516 [US]

ISBN10: 0940450518, ISBN13: 9780940450516, [publisher: Library of America, New York] Hardcover First Edition Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. ; Library of America; 8.10 X 4.90 X 1.20 inches; 900 pages.
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New York Library of America 1989 Library of America; First Printing Hardcover Fine in a Near Fine slipcase.; Library Of America; 8.1 X 4.9 X 1.2 inches; 900 pages.