Imaginary Interviews

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Imaginary Interviews is an illustrated book by W.D. Howells. The contents list includes The Restoration of the Easy Chair by Way of Introduction, A Year of Spring and a Life of Youth and Sclerosis of the Tastes, among others. Titles in the contents list also include A Niece's Literary Advice To Her Uncle and A Search for Celebrity, among others.

A speaker whom another calls uncle says that once he did not know what love was, and now he has forgotten. The text calls the summer a season so unreasonable that it will not allow itself to be satisfactorily disposed of. Summer, according to the text, is intolerable in town, and in the mountains it is sultry by day and all but freezing by night.

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William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells (1837 to 1920) was one of the most influential American men of letters of his era, an editor, critic, and prolific novelist. He championed literary realism, supported writers like Mark Twain, and used his own fiction to examine money, class, and conscience in American society.