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The Minister's Charge (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
eBook
ISBN/EAN: 9781411459168
Umbreit-Nr.: 1729167
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 476 S.
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 19.07.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
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Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <div><p>This 1886 novel introduces Howells's conceptderived from Tolstoyof moral complicity, which would play a large part in his fiction from this point on.&#xa0; A poor farmer, Lemuel Barker, comes to Boston with dreams of becoming a poet.&#xa0; Instead, his naïveté leaves him an easy mark, and he is soon destitute.&#xa0; A minister, Sewell, is forced to consider his own complicity in Barker's fate . . . and by extension that of all his less-fortunate fellows.</p></div>
- Autorenportrait
- <div><p><b>William Dean Howells</b> (1837-1920) was an American novelist and critic.  He edited the<i>Atlantic Monthly</i> from 1871-1881, where he championed literary realism and advanced the careers of such important American writers as Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, and Henry James.  His best known novel is<i>The Rise of Silas Lapham</i> (1885).</p></div>