William Dean Howells

The papers collected here under the name of 'My Literary Passions' were printed serially in a periodical of such vast circulation that they might well have been supposed to have found there all the acceptance that could be reasonably hoped for them. Nevertheless, they were reissued in a volume the year after they first appeared, in 1895, and they had a pleasing share of such favor as their author's books have enjoyed. Contents: The Bookcase at Home -- Goldsmith -- Cervantes -- Irving -- First Fiction and Drama -- Longfellow's "Spanish Student" -- Scott -- Lighter Fancies -- Pope -- Various Preferences -- Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Ossian -- Shakespeare -- Ik Marvel -- Dickens -- Wordsworth, Lowell, Chaucer -- Macaulay -- Critics and Reviews -- A Non-literary Episode -- Thackeray -- "Lazarillo De Tormes" -- Curtis, Longfellow, Schlegel -- Tennyson -- Heine -- De Quincey, Goethe, Longfellow -- George Eliot, Hawthorne, Goethe, Heine -- Charles Reade -- Dante -- Goldoni, Manzoni, D'azeglio -- "Pastor Fido," "Aminta," "Romola," "Yeast," "Paul Ferroll" -- Erckmann-chatrian, Bjorstjerne Bjornson -- Tourguenief, Auerbach -- Certain Preferences and Experiences -- Valdes, Galdos, Verga, Zola, Trollope, Hardy -- Tolstoy

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