By William Dean Howells

 

[Originally published in 1895]

 

Bibliographical [1909]

The Bookcase At Home

Goldsmith

Cervantes

Irving

First Fiction And Drama

Longfellow’s “Spanish Student”

Scott

Lighter Fancies

Pope

Various Preferences

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Ossian

Shakespeare

Ik Marvel

Dickens

Wordsworth, Lowell, Chaucer

Macaulay

Critics And Reviews

A Non-Literary Episode

Thackeray

“Lazarillo De Tormes”

Curtis, Longfellow, Schlegel

Tennyson

Heine

De Quincey, Goethe, Longfellow

George Eliot, Hawthorne, Goethe, Heine

Charles Reade

Dante

Goldoni, Manzoni, D’azeglio

“Pastor Fido,” “Aminta,” “Romola,” “Yeast,” “Paul Ferroll”

Erckmann-Chatrian, Bjorstjerne Bjornson

Tourguenief, Auerbach

Certain Preferences And Experiences

Valdes, Galdos, Verga, Zola, Trollope, Hardy

Tolstoy