101. The Corliss Engine - William Dean Howells William Dean Howells (1837 1920). The Corliss Engine. The Corliss engine doesnot lend itself to description; its personal acquaintance must be sought by http://www.sauguscenturions.com/msmith/howell.html

William Dean Howells The Corliss Engine Corliss engine: at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, a giant Corliss steam engine standing 39 feet above the main floor of Machinery Hall provided power for all the exhibits in the building. Afreet: in Arabic mythology, an evil demon William Dean Howells - important American writer who set a standard for the new American Realism in literature during the late 1800's. He is the author of The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885), a novel about a self-made Boston manufacturer and his family and the testing of their values. This novel includes such common and popular ingredients of fiction as a rags-to-riches career, romantic love, and financial emergencies; but it avoids Romantic melodrama and suggests the decent good sense of realistic life that American Realism and Howells did much to encourage. Back

102. William Dean Howells William Dean Howells is born in Martin’s Ferry OH, to William Cooper and Mary Dean 1852, Without William Dean Howells’s knowledge, his father has one of http://angam.ang.univie.ac.at/novel02/vo06.htm

William Dean Howells Biography March 1. William Dean Howells is born in Martin’s Ferry OH, to William Cooper and Mary Dean Howells, the second child and second son of their eight children William Cooper Howells becomes editor of the Hamilton, Ohio, Intelligencer and publishes a Swedenborgian newspaper called The Retina on the side. Trying to gather support for the Free Soil party, William Cooper Howells quits the Intelligencer over a matter of principle. The family moves to Dayton, Eureka Mills, and other places in Ohio. The Howells family moves to Columbus for 18 months and later to Ashtabula and Jefferson (in 1853); Howells works as a printer. Without William Dean Howells’s knowledge, his father has one of WDH’s poems published in the Ohio State Journal. Howells’s first published fiction, “A Tale of Love and Politics, Adventures of a Printer Boy,” appears in the Ashtabula Sentinel William Cooper Howells is elected Clerk of the State House of Representatives. Howells begins to learn German and to admire the poet Heinrich Heine. He writes a column (“Letter from Columbus”) for the

103. Howells, William Dean /1837 - 1920/WWW.MLP.CZ Mestská knihovna v Prazeoficiální internetové strány. http://www.mlp.cz/cz/offline/perlie/H/9906.htm

Mìstská knihovna v Praze / Municipal library of Prague Seznam autorit / A list of personages Howells, William Dean /1837 - 1920 (amer.spisovatel a dramatik) Záhlaví: Název OCH Rok Signatura Druh dokumentu Svazky HOWELLS, William Dean: Indian Summer. AG 852 kniha svazky TANNER, Tony: The American mystery X 6130 kniha svazky Poslední aktualizace: 12.8.2005; Generováno systémem Perlie 1.2

104. IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection the Internet Public Library. Online Literary Criticism Collection. William DeanHowells (1837 1920). Nationality American Born American, Periods http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=how-402

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