Books with title My year in a Log Cabin

"Nothing he ever wrote can be more tender than the reminiscences of this year spent in a log cabin somewhere in Ohio." -Book News Monthly, 1894" Beside the perennial charm of Mr. Howells' style, it has the fascination inherent in all such self-revelation from a writer one knows and loves." - The Literary World, 1893In his 1893 book "My Year in a Log Cabin" William Dean Howells gives another fragment of his early life. The log-cabin was situated on the Miami River, and Mr. Howells' father went there to take charge of a saw-mill and grist-mill for his brothers, who intended to start a paper-mill. All this happened in 1850, and so Mr. Howells came to have some experience of all the interesting features of the nowforgotten frontier life, even then beginning to give way before advancing civilization.The incidents are commonplaces, the country pigs and geese, squirrel shooting, the feigned lameness by which mother quail and mother ducks divert harm from their young, imaginary ghosts, and imaginary Indians. Yet Mr. Howells' style is, as always, far from commonplace. His skillful telling gives these incidents the charm of art. No better evidence could be offered of the genuine sympathy, humor and pathos, with which he makes his most literal transcripts from life.About the author: William Dean Howells (1837 –1920) was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, as well as for his own prolific writings, including the Christmas story "Christmas Every Day" and the novels The Rise of Silas Lapham and A Traveler from Altruria.Other works by the author include: •Modern Italian Poets •Venetian Life •Italian Journeys •Suburban Sketches •Their Wedding Journey •A Chance Acquaintance •A Foregone Conclusion •A Day's Pleasure •The Parlor Car•A Counterfeit Presentment•Out of the Question •The Lady of The Aroostook •The Undiscovered Country•A Modern Instance•A Fearful Responsibility •Dr. Breen's Practice•A Day's Pleasure•Out of the Question•A Woman's Reason•The Sleeping Car•Niagara Revisited •Three Villages•The Register•Tuscan Cities•The Rise of Silas Lapham •A Sea-Change, or, Love's Stowaway•The Elevator: A Farce •Indian Summer •The Garroters•The Minister's Charge•Modern Italian Poets•April Hopes•A Sea-Change•The Mouse-Trap •Annie Kilburn•A Hazard of New Fortunes•The Shadow of a Dream•A Boy's Town•An Imperative Duty •The Quality of Mercy•The Albany Depot •A Little Swiss Sojourn •A Letter of Introduction•The World of Chance •The Unexpected Guest •My Year in a Log Cabin•Christmas Every Day•The Coast of Bohemia•Evening Dress•A Traveler from Altruria•My Literary Passions •Stops of Various Quills •A Parting and a Meeting•Impressions and Experiences •Stories of Ohio •The Landlord At Lion's Head •An Open-Eyed Conspiracy•A Previous Engagement•The Story of a Play•Ragged Lady•Their Silver Wedding Journey •An Indian Giver•Bride Roses•Literary Friends and Acquaintance

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A log cabin is a small log house, especially a less finished or architecturally sophisticated structure. Log cabins have an ancient history in Europe, and in America are often associated with first generation home building by settlers....William Dean Howells ( March 1, 1837 – May 11, 1920) was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, as well as for his own prolific writings, including the Christmas story "Christmas Every Day" and the novels The Rise of Silas Lapham and A Traveler from Altruria.Early life and familyWilliam Dean Howells was born on March 1, 1837, in Martinsville, Ohio (now known as Martins Ferry, Ohio), to William Cooper Howells and Mary Dean Howells,the second of eight children. His father was a newspaper editor and printer who moved frequently around Ohio.In 1840, the family settled in Hamilton, Ohio, where his father oversaw a Whig newspaper and followed Swedenborgianism.Their nine years there were the longest period that they stayed in one place. The family had to live frugally, although the young Howells was encouraged by his parents in his literary interests.He began at an early age to help his father with typesetting and printing work, a job known at the time as a printer's devil. In 1852, his father arranged to have one of his poems published in the Ohio State Journal without telling him.Literary criticismIn addition to his own creative works, Howells also wrote criticism, and essays about contemporary literary figures such as Henrik Ibsen, Émile Zola, Giovanni Verga, Benito Pérez Galdós, and, especially, Leo Tolstoy, which helped establish their reputations in the United States. He also wrote critically in support of American writers Hamlin Garland, Stephen Crane, Emily Dickinson, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sarah Orne Jewett, Charles W. Chesnutt, Abraham Cahan, Madison Cawein, and Frank Norris. It is perhaps in this role that he had his greatest influence. In his "Editor's Study" column at The Atlantic Monthly and, later, at Harper's, he formulated and disseminated his theories of "realism" in literature.Howells viewed realism as "nothing more and nothing less than the truthful treatment of material."In defense of the real, as opposed to the ideal, he wrote,"I hope the time is coming when not only the artist, but the common, average man, who always 'has the standard of the arts in his power,' will have also the courage to apply it, and will reject the ideal grasshopper wherever he finds it, in science, in literature, in art, because it is not 'simple, natural, and honest,' because it is not like a real grasshopper. But I will own that I think the time is yet far off, and that the people who have been brought up on the ideal grasshopper, the heroic grasshopper, the impassioned grasshopper, the self-devoted, adventureful, good old romantic card-board grasshopper, must die out before the simple, honest, and natural grasshopper can have a fair field."Howells believed the future of American writing was not in poetry but in novels, a form which he saw shifting from "romance" to a serious form.Howells was a Christian socialist whose ideals were greatly influenced by Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. He joined a Christian socialist group in Boston between 1889 and 1891 and attended several churches, including the First Spiritual Temple and the Church of the Carpenter, the latter being affiliated with the Episcopal Church and the Society of Christian Socialists. These influences led him to write on issues of social justice from a moral and egalitarian point of view, being critic of the social effects of industrial capitalism. He was, however, not a Marxist.

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