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Book Synopsis An Imperative Duty by : William Dean Howells
Download or read book An Imperative Duty written by William Dean Howells and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2020 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Howells' latest novel deserves and will receive wide reading. It deals with a problem which had found its way into American social life of his time: "How will a cultivated and beautiful woman feel if she discovers that she has a tinge of negro blood in her veins? How will other people, particularly her lover, feel and act?" Mr. Howells works out the problem with skill, on what seem to us sound lines of reasoning. 'An Imperative Duty' is so mature a work, and so good an example of the author's method, that it invites the closest scrutiny. It is written with his usual acuteness and cleverness, but with even more than his ordinary amount of self-consciousness. He is continually trying to say clever things, and he seems here a kind of intellectual conventionalist ; we feel that he would commit a minor crime rather than fail in the proper tone. As one reads he plants his feet as circumspectly as in threading his way in a crowded parlor where trains abound. One is exhausted in the effort to keep up to the author's intensely self-conscious key. It is too much like the brilliant persiflage of a dinner-party when everybody means more than he says and challenges his listeners to see the target at which he is really aiming. The glow and "fling" of high creative work are thus rendered impossible to the author, and the reader falls into a hyper-critical state of mind. Mr. Howells is at his best when describing distinctive American types. The cultivated Frenchman and the cultivated American are much more alike than are the Frenchman and the American on lower levels; and when a writer selects his characters from Beacon Street and the "Cours la Reine" he has less opportunity to be picturesque than when he deals with Hanover Street and the "Quartier Latin." Mr. Howells is an artist of the first order like Henry James. He works by rule, and the result is the product of high talent.
Book Synopsis An Imperative Duty by : William Dean Howells
Download or read book An Imperative Duty written by William Dean Howells and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bonded Leather binding
Book Synopsis An Imperative Duty by : William Dean Howells
Download or read book An Imperative Duty written by William Dean Howells and published by Readhowyouwant. This book was released on 2007-05-04 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through this narrative Howells has expressed his views on different social issues of his time. These include racism, industrialization and the ongoing conflict between Socialists and Capitalists. The work skilfully amalgamates all the different issues and presents a love that transcends social hurdles and prejudices.
Download or read book An Imperative Duty written by W. Howells and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE duty which weighs so heavily on the conscience of Mrs. Meredith is one likely to appeal more forcibly to the American than to the European standard of honour. This lady appears on the scene as the guardian and sole relative of a young and lovely niece, and is introduced to the reader in an hotel at Boston where she has just arrived from Europe, as the patient of a Dr. Olney, staying there under similar circumstances. He quickly discovers that he is called upon to "minister to a mind diseased," and ends by being made the confidant of the lady's mysterious trouble. The latter resolves itself into the dilemma in which she finds herself placed by the probability of her niece's marriage, involving the necessity of imparting to her or to her suitor or both, the crushing fact that despite her beauty and grace, her distinction of air, and purity, if not fairness of skin, she has in her veins the dark taint of negro blood. Her father, a physician practising in New Orleans, had married there a beautiful octoroon, and had on his death left his little girl to be brought up by his sister. The cruel kindness of keeping the child in ignorance of her origin has now to be expiated by the necessity of imparting it to her at an age when it comes as a terrible revelation, with the result of utterly estranging the girl from her aunt and driving her into a state of mind bordering on insanity. Her first impulse is to rush into the street and seek the quarter of the humble coloured people that she may accustom herself to the horror of feeling her kinship with them, and the additional revulsion of feeling with which she regards them under these circumstances is powerfully realised. She returns to the hotel to find her aunt dying of the effects of an overdose of her sleeping draught, and thus goes through a second crisis in her fate, ere she has had time to realise the first. The Dens ex machina is found in Dr. Olney, who has by this time fallen so thoroughly in love with her as to be willing to marry her with all her imperfections on her head. -The Dublin Review, Volume 110
Book Synopsis Imperative Duty by : William Dean Howells
Download or read book Imperative Duty written by William Dean Howells and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Imperative Duty; a Novel by : William Dean Howells
Download or read book An Imperative Duty; a Novel written by William Dean Howells and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ... xm. Olney expected, without being able to say why exactly, a second visit from the man who was now only his former rival. Perhaps it was because he believed he knew why Miss Aldgate had refused to see him that he rather thought the young man would come to ask him. But he did not come, and in the mean time Olney began to perceive that it would have been preposterous for him to have come. Till he learned by inquiry of the clerk at the Vendome that Bloomingdale had left there with his mother and sisters, he did not feel that the minister was out of the story, and that it remained for him alone to read it to the end. He took it for granted that Rhoda treated the man who had certainly a claim upon her kindness in that brusque, not to say brutal manner, out of mere hysterical weakness. She had made up her mind to refuse him, and as she felt she might not have strength to endure the sight of the pain she must inflict, she had determined not to witness it. Whether she had loved him too well to afflict him with her secret, or not well enough to trust him with it, was what remained a question with Olney, and he turned from one point of it to the other with the wish to answer it in a sense different from both. What he wished to believe was that she did not love the poor young fellow at all, but this seemed to be too good to be true, and he could not believe it with the constancy of his desire. Nevertheless he had a fitful hold upon it, and it was this faith, wavering and elusive as it was, that encouraged him to think Miss Aldgate would not refuse to see him, and that he might at any rate go down at once to Mrs. Atherton's, and ask about her if not for her. When he had reasoned to this conclusion, which he reached with electrical rapidity as soon...
Book Synopsis An Imperative Duty by : William Dean Howells
Download or read book An Imperative Duty written by William Dean Howells and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-13 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Imperative Duty: A Novel Olney got back to Boston about the middle of July, and found himself in the social solitude which the summer makes more noticeable in that city than in any other. The business, the hard work of life, was going on, galloping on, as it always does in America, but the pleasure of life, which he used to be part of as a younger man, was taking arest, or if not a rest, then certainly an outing at the sea-shore. He met no one he knew, and he continued his foreign travels in his native place, after an absence so long that it made everything once so familiar bewilderingly strange. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The Shadow of a Dream and an Imperative Duty by : William Dean Howells
Download or read book The Shadow of a Dream and an Imperative Duty written by William Dean Howells and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These two nouvelles mark Howells' plunge into psychological realism. Their themes-a triangle of tragic agonies with psychological insights intriguingly proto-Freudian, and a drama of miscegenation-are anything but the "smiling", lightweight topics to which Howells has been supposed to have been confined. The maturity both of their art and of their moral insight lends them an impact much deeper and more permanent than that of the shriller, more merely commercial shocking fiction of our day. Edwin H. Cady's introduction places the books in the context of the development of Howells' life, work, art, thought, and sensibility. He helps the reader make immediate contact with the artistic methods and intentions of the author.
Book Synopsis An Imperative Duty by : William Dean Howells
Download or read book An Imperative Duty written by William Dean Howells and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book An Imperative Duty. a Novel written by William Dean Howells and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis An Imperative Duty by : W. D. Howells
Download or read book An Imperative Duty written by W. D. Howells and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis The Imperative of Responsibility by : Hans Jonas
Download or read book The Imperative of Responsibility written by Hans Jonas and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans Jonas here rethinks the foundations of ethics in light of the awesome transformations wrought by modern technology: the threat of nuclear war, ecological ravage, genetic engineering, and the like. Though informed by a deep reverence for human life, Jonas's ethics is grounded not in religion but in metaphysics, in a secular doctrine that makes explicit man's duties toward himself, his posterity, and the environment. Jonas offers an assessment of practical goals under present circumstances, ending with a critique of modern utopianism.
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Download or read book The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Shadow of a Dream, and An Imperative Duty by : William Dean Howells
Download or read book The Shadow of a Dream, and An Imperative Duty written by William Dean Howells and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Treatise on Equity Jurisprudence by : Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman
Download or read book A Treatise on Equity Jurisprudence written by Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report and Opinions of the Attorney General by : Illinois. Attorney General's Office
Download or read book Report and Opinions of the Attorney General written by Illinois. Attorney General's Office and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Biennial Report and Opinions of the Attorney General of the State of Illinois by : Illinois. Attorney General's Office
Download or read book Biennial Report and Opinions of the Attorney General of the State of Illinois written by Illinois. Attorney General's Office and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
