Cynthia Ozick on William Dean Howells
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“William Dean Howells (who ought to be venerated at least as much as Willa Cather, if not more)”
“I recently came upon the unjustly neglected but blissful novels of William Dean Howells. Like Jane Austen, they revel in domestic success and unsuccess; like Henry James, they sometimes set their Americans in Europe; like Anthony Trollope, they are skeptically aware of political turmoil.”