My Literary Passions
By William Dean Howells
[Originally published in 1895]
Bibliographical [1909]
The Bookcase At Home
Goldsmith
Cervantes
Irving
First Fiction And Drama
Longfellow’s “Spanish Student”
Scott
Lighter Fancies
Pope
Various Preferences
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Ossian
Shakespeare
Ik Marvel
Dickens
Wordsworth, Lowell, Chaucer
Macaulay
Critics And Reviews
A Non-Literary Episode
Thackeray
“Lazarillo De Tormes”
Curtis, Longfellow, Schlegel
Tennyson
Heine
De Quincey, Goethe, Longfellow
George Eliot, Hawthorne, Goethe, Heine
Charles Reade
Dante
Goldoni, Manzoni, D’azeglio
“Pastor Fido,” “Aminta,” “Romola,” “Yeast,” “Paul Ferroll”
Erckmann-Chatrian, Bjorstjerne Bjornson
Tourguenief, Auerbach
Certain Preferences And Experiences
Valdes, Galdos, Verga, Zola, Trollope, Hardy
Tolstoy