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Author : William Dean Howells
language : en
Publisher: New York, Harper, 1888 [c1887]
Release Date : 1887
April Hopes written by William Dean Howells and has been published by New York, Harper, 1888 [c1887] this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1887 with Literary Criticism categories.
A comedy of manners that follows the romantic complications between a young woman and her fiance.
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Author : William Dean Howells
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1974
April Hopes written by William Dean Howells and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Fiction categories.
April Hopes is HowellsÕ challenge to sentimentalism in American fiction in the late 1880Õs romantic illusion leads to potential tragedy. As an example of HowellsÕ realism and deft irony, April Hopes is unsurpassed.
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Author : William Dean Howells
language : en
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Release Date : 1888
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Author : William Dean Howells
language : en
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Release Date : 2020
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Mr. Howells shows a light and exquisite touch in “April Hopes,” a novel, it is safe to say, in which all his finer qualities are seen at their best. The sweetness of it is perhaps a trifle cloying now and then to robust palates, but the story is for all the world like a spring day where showers and sunshine grace fully intermingle. Story, we say, while in reality there is no story at all, in accordance with Mr. Howells' views of the lack of stories in "real" life. Only an account of how two young things fell in love with one another and quarreled and made up, and quarreled again, and made up again, and broke off the engagement once more, and finally made up for good and got married. But how charmingly the affair is put before us—all the foolish, silly, entrancing details are there, and never does the author exceed the limits of probability or the canons of good taste. It is like a pretty play, for the narrative in the book is a poor pennyworth of bread to an infinite deal of sack in shape of bright and sparkling dialogue. We sit and watch Dan and Alice at their love meetings and their love quarrels, hear them exchange their bits of romantic nonsense, see them go through their little deceits and flights of tragedy and playings at broken hearts, and listen while they utter protestations of undying affection and vows of unwavering faith. It is all very pretty very dainty, very touching, and everyone who assists at the performance must feel that here at any rate is a bit of reality—softened, indeed, and modified somewhat by the essentially idealistic temperament of the author, who finds it hard not to give a Watteau-like grace to all his fond imaginings— yet sufficiently “real” to chime in with the actual or fancied experiences common to the majority of commonplace humanity. The doctrine of elective affinities has no place in the world of 'April Hopes.' "Girlhood", in the author's view, “is often a turmoil of wild impulses, ignorant exaltations, mistaken ideals, which really represent no intelligent purpose, and come from disordered nerves, ill-advised reading, and the erroneous perspective of inexperience.” When two creatures thus constituted indulge in the frantic effort of trying to reconcile their ideals the comedy and tragedy of courtship begin, for as Mr. Howells says once more, “the difficulty in life is to bring experience to the level of expectation, to match our real emotions in view of any great occasion with the ideal emotions which we have taught ourselves that we ought to feel.”
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Author : William Howells
language : en
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Release Date : 2017-11-30
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April Hopes is the 1888 novel by the American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, William Dean Howells. Though a novel, the story acts more like a critique of the romantic era novels published in the late nineteenth century. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
April Hopes 1887
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Author : William Dean Howells
language : en
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Release Date : 2018-03-15
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" April Hopes " from William Dean Howells . American realist author and literary critic (1837-1920).
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Author : William Dean Howells
language : en
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Release Date : 1887
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Author : William D. Howells
language : en
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Release Date : 2020-12-17
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William Dean Howells Novels 1886 1888 Loa 44
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Author : William Dean Howells
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 1989-09-01
William Dean Howells Novels 1886 1888 Loa 44 written by William Dean Howells and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-09-01 with Fiction categories.
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. In The 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 easygoing son of a wealthy wallpaper manufacturer, her mother begins a careful campaign to bring about their marriage. The heroine of Annie Kilburn (1888) returns to her Hatboro’, Massachusetts, home after eleven years abroad and finds a once-quiet village rapidly turning into a sprawling factory town with paved streets, electric lights, and a department store. Unmarried at thirty-one, the daughter of a prominent “old” family, she renews ties with old friends and begins her life anew. Throughout, Howells portrays the faults and virtues of his heroine and her neighbors with affection, understanding, and wit. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
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Author : William Dean Howells
language : en
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
Release Date : 2001-12
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