Fennel and Rue

Known as “The Dean of American Letters”, William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was a realist author and literary critic best known for his tenure as one of the most influential editors of the Atlantic Monthly, which is still an important publication today. And though Howells is known mostly for his work as a literary critic, he was also a novelist who wrote works like The Rise of Silas Lapham, Christmas Every Day, and much more. Along the way, he was a literary critic of the works of some of his greatest contemporaries, like Emile Zola, and he knew many American writers, including Mark Twain, Henry James, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

One of Howells's novellas was Fennel and Rue, which focuses on Verrian, a novelist, and the conversations and circumstances he finds himself in. This edition of Howells’ Fennel and Rue is specially formatted with a Table of Contents and is illustrated with pictures of Howells.