ISBN: 9781151599896

Stories and Readings Selected from the Works of William Dean Howells, and Arranged by Percival Chubb, Director of English in the Ethical Culture School, New York."The literary culture whi… More...

Stories and Readings Selected from the Works of William Dean Howells, and Arranged by Percival Chubb, Director of English in the Ethical Culture School, New York."The literary culture which we are trying to give our boys and girls is not sufficiently contemporaneous, and it is not sufficiently national and American."Among the living writers there is no one whose work has a more distinctively American savor than that of William Dean Howells. The juvenile books of Mr. Howells' contain some of the very best pages ever written for the enjoyment of young people."-Percival Chubb. Books Fiction~~General Boy-Life~~William-Dean-Howells General Books LLC Stories and Readings Selected from the Works of William Dean Howells, and Arranged by Percival Chubb, Director of English in the Ethical Culture School, New York. "The literary culture which we are trying to give our boys and girls is not sufficiently contemporaneous, and it is not sufficiently national and American.... "Among the living writers there is no one whose work has a more distinctively American savor than that of William Dean Howells.... The juvenile books of Mr. Howells' contain some of the very best pages ever written for the enjoyment of young people."-Percival Chubb.<