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The Minister’s Charge or The Apprenticeship of Lemuel Barker.
Boston: Ticknor and Co., 1887. First edition, American issue, using the same plates as the English edition of 1886, with a new title-page. BAL 9627; Wright III, 2822. The Minister’s Charge, like many of Howells' works of fiction, probes the structure of the city’s social classes through the life of.....
The Rise of Silas Lapham.
Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1885. First edition. BAL 9619, state 1; Wright III, 2829. ¶ Howells’ most famous novel, and one of the cornerstone works of American realistic fiction, the story of the newly rich businessman, Silas Lapham, his frustrations in dealing with Boston brahmins and his rise and eventual.....
A Woman's Reason: A Novel.
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1883. First edition. BAL 9610; Wright III, 2835. One of the major realistic domestic novels from William Dean Howells.