Table of Contents

Preface Chronology of Howells' Life and Work 1. Parallel Lives 2. Warring Ambitions, 1851--1859 3. Years of Decision, 1859--1861 4. Consul at Venice, 1861--1865 5. Atlantic Years, 1: 1865--1867 6. Atlantic Years, 2: 1867--1871 7. His Mark Twain, from 1869 8. Fictional Lives, 1871--1878 9. "From Venice as Far as Belmont," 1878--1882 10. In England and Italy, 1882--1883 11. The Man of Business, 1883--1886 12. "Heartache and Horror," 1886--1890 13. Words and Deeds, 1890--1894 14. Peripatetic, 1895--1899 15. Kittery Point, 1900--1905 16. Greater Losses, 1906--1910 17. Reconsiderations, 1911--1917 18. Eighty Years and After, 1918--1920 Notes Index

About the Author

Susan Goodman, Professor of English and H. Fletcher Brown Chair of Humanities at the University of Delaware, is author of Civil Wars: American Novelists and Manners, 1880-1940 (2003) and Ellen Glasgow: A Biography (2003), among other books. Carl Dawson, Professor of English at the University of Delaware, is author of Living Backwards: A Transatlantic Memoir (1995), Lafcadio Hearn and the Vision of Japan (1992), and other books.