The Story of a Country Town is both a pioneering triumph of realistic fiction and a landmark in the development of American literature. Written at night after a hard day’s work as editor and publisher of an evening newspaper in Aitchison, Kansas, this novel represents a retreat from the nineteenth-century romantic image of rural life in the American Midwest. Edgar Watson Howe’s portrait of a small town, the fictional Twin Mounds, is a damning indictment of an environment that cripples the mind and corrodes the spirit. His view of village and farm is colored by a sense of harsh pessimism and filled with a pervading sense of lost opportunities. The Story of a Country Town marks the moment the myth of small-town America gave way to the wasteland of broken dreams.
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William Dean Howells was a 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.Meer e-boeken van dezelfde auteur (s) / Editor
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