Imaginary Interviews

Imaginary Interviews

William Dean Howells, American realist author and literary critic (1837-1920)


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Table of Contents

- About This Book

- Chapter I-the Restoration Of The Easy Chair By Way Of Introduction

- Chapter Ii-a Year Of Spring And A Life Of Youth

- Chapter Iii-sclerosis Of The Tastes

- Chapter Iv-the Practices And Precepts Of Vaudeville

- Chapter V-intimations Of Italian Opera

- Chapter Vi-the Superiority Of Our Inferiors

- Chapter Vii-unimportance Of Women In Republics

- Chapter Viii-having Just Got Home

- Chapter Ix-new York To The Home-comer's Eye

- Chapter X-cheapness Of The Costliest City On Earth

- Chapter Xi-ways And Means Of Living In New York

- Chapter Xii-the Quality Of Boston And The Quantity Of New York

- Chapter Xiii-the Whirl Of Life In Our First Circles

- Chapter Xiv-the Magazine Muse

- Chapter Xv-comparative Luxuries Of Travel

- Chapter Xvi-qualities Without Defects

- Chapter Xvii-a Wasted Opportunity

- Chapter Xviii-a Niece's Literary Advice To Her Uncle

- Chapter Xix-a Search For Celebrity

- Chapter Xx-practical Immortality On Earth

- Chapter Xxi-around A Rainy-day Fire

- Chapter Xxii-the Advantages Of Quotational Criticism

- Chapter Xxiii-reading For A Grandfather

- Chapter Xxiv-some Moments With The Muse

- Chapter Xxv-a Normal Hero And Heroine Out Of Work

- Other Essays-chapter I-autumn In The Country And City

- Chapter Ii-personal And Epistolary Addresses

- Chapter Iii=dressing For Hotel Dinner

- Chapter Iv-the Counsel Of Literary Age To Literary Youth

- Chapter V-the Unsatisfactoriness Of Unfriendly Criticism

- Chapter Vi-the Fickleness Of Age

- Chapter Vii-the Renewal Of Inspiration

- Chapter Viii-the Summer Sojourn Of Florindo And Lindora

- Chapter Ix-to Have The Honor Of Meeting

- Chapter X-a Day At Bronx Park