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Stories of Ohio

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Stories of Ohio

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Part of Belt's Revivals Series and with a new introduction by Belt Publishing founder, Anne Trubek. A novelist, critic, and playwright, William Dean Howells was friends with such luminaries as Mark Twain, Henry James, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. Though he's best known for his East Coast novels like The Rise of Silas Lampham and A Hazard of New Fortunes, Howells never forgot his roots in Ohio. And in Stories of Ohio, he offers a series of short vignettes that chronicle the state's history, including: - the Native burial grounds of the Serpent Mound - the first European settlers on the frontier - Ohio's role in the War of 1812 - the Civil War generals and presidents the state birthed in the late nineteenth century. Though this history primarily focuses on life in Ohio before the nineteenth century, it will help today's reader see the state in a brand-new light. This unsung classic of American literature helps shed light on both Ohio and the career of a writer known as the "Dean of American Letters."

Author Biography:

William Dean Howells was an American novelist, playwright, and critic. Born in Ohio in 1837, he rose to prominence as a poet and short story writer, eventually befriending writers such as Mark Twain, Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. He died in New York City in 1920. Anne Trubek is the founder of Belt Publishing and the author of The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
Release date Australia
March 26th, 2019
Contributor
  • Introduction by Anne Trubek
Pages
256
Interest Age
From 13 years
Audience
  • Teenage / Young Adult
Dimensions
142x203x13
ISBN-13
9781948742214
Product ID
28368986

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