Author:William Dean Howells

Works

 * The following list of works and their categorisation is derived from the bibliography in William Dean Howells: A Critical Study (1922), by Delmar Gross Cooke. All works listed are available on Internet Archive.

Novels

 * Their Wedding Journey (1872)
 * A Chance Acquaintance (1873)
 * A Foregone Conclusion (1875)
 * The Lady of the Aroostook (1879)
 * The Undiscovered Country (1880)
 * Dr. Breen's practice, a novel (1881)
 * A Modern Instance (1882)
 * A Woman's Reason; a novel (1883)
 * The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885)
 * Indian Summer (1886)
 * The Minister's Charge, or The Apprenticeship of Lemuel Barker (1887)
 * April Hopes (1888)
 * Annie Kilburn; a novel (1888)
 * A Hazard of New Fortunes; a novel (1889)
 * The Shadow of a Dream; a story (1890)
 * An Imperative Duty; a novel (1891)
 * The Quality of Mercy; a novel (1892)
 * The Coast of Bohemia; a novel (1893)
 * The World of Chance; a novel (1893)
 * A Traveler from Altruria (1894)
 * The Day of their Wedding; a novel (1896)
 * The Landlord at Lion's Head (1897)
 * An Open-Eyed Conspiracy; an Idyl of Saratoga (1897)
 * The Story of a Play; a novel (1898)
 * Ragged Lady; a novel (1899)
 * Their Silver Wedding Journey (1899), in 2 vols.
 * The Kentons; a novel (1902)
 * Letters Home (1903)
 * The Son of Royal Langbrith (1904)
 * Miss Bellard's Inspiration; a novel (1905)
 * Through the Eye of a Needle; a romance (1907)
 * Fennel and Rue; a novel (1908)
 * New Leaf Mills: a Chronicle (1913)
 * The Leatherwood God(1916)
 * The Vacation of the Kelwyns; an idyl of the middle eighteen-seventies (1920)
 * Mrs. Farrell, a novel (1921)

Plays

 * The Parlor Car: a farce (1876)
 * Out of the Question: a comedy (1877)
 * A Counterfeit Presentment; comedy (1877)
 * The Sleeping Car, a farce (1883)
 * The Register; a farce (1884)
 * The Elevator; a farce (1885)
 * The Garroters; a farce (1886)
 * A Sea-Change, or Love's Stowaway; a lyricated farce (1888)
 * The Mousetrap, and other farces (1889)
 * The Sleeping Car, and other farces (1890)
 * The Albany Depot; a farce (1891)
 * A Letter of Introduction; a farce (1892)
 * The Unexpected Guests; a farce (1893)
 * Evening Dress; a farce (1893)
 * A Likely Story (1894)
 * Five O'Clock Tea; a farce (1894)
 * A Previous Engagement; comedy (1897)
 * Room Forty-Five; a farce (1900)
 * Bride Roses; a scene (1900)
 * An Indian Giver; a comedy (1900)
 * The Smoking Car; a farce (1900)
 * Parting Friends: A Farce (1911)

Criticism

 * Modern Italian Poets: Essays and Versions (1887)
 * Criticism and Fiction (1891)
 * My Literary Passions (1895)
 * Literary Friends and Acquaintance: a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship (1900)
 * Heroines of Fiction (1901), in 2 vols.
 * Literature and Life: studies (1902)
 * My Mark Twain: Reminiscences and Criticisms (1910)
 * Imaginary Interviews (1910)

Travel writing

 * Venetian Life (1866)
 * Italian Journeys (1867)
 * Three Villages (1884)
 * Tuscan Cities (1886)
 * A Little Swiss Sojourn (1892)
 * The Niagara Book (1893), with Samuel Langhorne Clemens and others
 * London Films (1905)
 * Certain Delightful English Towns; with Glimpses of the Pleasant Country Between (1906)
 * Roman Holidays and others (1908)
 * Seven English Cities (1909)
 * Familiar Spanish Travels (1913)
 * The Seen and Unseen at Stratford-on-Avon: a Fantasy (1914)
 * Hither and Thither in Germany (1920)

Sketches and stories

 * Suburban Sketches (1871)
 * A Day's Pleasure and Other Sketches (1876)
 * A Fearful Responsibility, and Other Stories (1881)
 * Buying a Horse (1881)
 * Christmas Every Day and other stories told for Children (1892)
 * A Parting and a Meeting; a story (1896)
 * Doorstep Acquaintance, and Other Sketches (1900)
 * A Pair of Patient Lovers (1901)
 * The Flight of Pony Baker; a Boy's Town story (1902)
 * Questionable Shapes (1903)
 * Between the Dark and the Daylight (1907)
 * The Daughter of the Storage and Other Things in Prose and Verse (1916)

Poetry

 * Poems of Two Friends (1860), co-authored with John James Piatt
 * The Poets and Poetry of the West (1860), contains six poems and four biographical notices by William Dean Howells.
 * No Love Lost: a Romance of Travel (1869)
 * Poems (1873, editions in 1885 and 1901)
 * Stops of Various Quills (1895), with illustrations by Howard Pyle.
 * The Mother and the Father; dramatic passages (1909)
 * "Pleasure-Pain"
 * "The Little Children", in The Book of the Homeless (1916)
 * "The Passengers of a Retarded Submersible", in A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919 (1917)

Miscellaneous

 * Lives and speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin (1860), co-authored with John Lord Hayes [Howells wrote the life of Lincoln]
 * A Little Girl among the Old Masters (1884)
 * Stories of Ohio (1897)
 * The Howells Story Book (1900)
 * Mulberries in Pay's Garden (1907)
 * Boy Life (1909)

Autobiographical interest

 * A Boy's Town (1890)
 * My Year in a Log Cabin (1893)
 * "Introduction" to Recollections of Life in Ohio. 1813-1840 (1895), by William Cooper Howells
 * Impressions and Experiences (1896)
 * Years of My Youth (1916)

Contributions to others' works

 * “Introduction,” The Children's Plutarch: Tales of the Greeks (1910)
 * “Introduction,” The Children's Plutarch: Tales of the Romans (1910)
 * (ed.) The Great Modern American Stories (1920)

Works from magazines

 * Howells contributed many articles to newspapers and periodicals in his earlier career as a journalist, as well as many thereafter. No attempt has been made to list them. A selection of the more significant ones is included in the bibliography referred to above.


 * “Carl Schurz 1829-1906,” Harper's Weekly (1906)
 * "The Boarders" in Harper's Magazine, Mar 1916
 * "In Charleston" in Harper's Magazine, Oct 1915
 * "The Eidolons of Brooks Alford" in Harper's Magazine, Aug 1906
 * "An Experience" in Harper's Magazine, Nov 1915
 * "In Folkestone out of Season" in Harper's Magazine, Nov 1915
 * "Kentish Neighborhoods Including Canterbury" in Harper's Magazine, Sep 1906
 * "The White Mr. Longfellow" in Harper's Magazine, Aug 1896

Works about Howells



 * "For the Birthday of William Dean Howells" (1912), a poem by Florence Earle Coates in honor of Howells' 75th birthday.
 * "William Dean Howells", in The American Novel (1921), by Carl Van Doren
 * "Mr. Howells" by Booth Tarkington, in Harper's Magazine, Aug 1920
 * "William Dean Howells", in The American Novel (1921), by Carl Van Doren
 * "Mr. Howells" by Booth Tarkington, in Harper's Magazine, Aug 1920
 * "Mr. Howells" by Booth Tarkington, in Harper's Magazine, Aug 1920