The Kentons: A Novel of Americans Abroad
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Winslow Homer, Maurice Prendergast and Jerome Myers. An Ohio family — a judge, his wife, and a daughter recovering from an unsuitable attachment — is taken to Europe to get over it, and the Atlantic and the Dutch canals do not much help. Howells edited The Atlantic and was the most powerful literary broker in America; this 1902 novel is his quiet study of ordinary decent people being wrong about their own children, and the father is beautifully done. Fifty-eight plates of family portraits and harbor scenes by Homer, Chase and their peers, from Vermeer to Bellows, echo the novel's domestic crossings.
Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Winslow Homer, Maurice Prendergast and Jerome Myers. An Ohio family — a judge, his wife, and a daughter recovering from an unsuitable attachment — is taken to Europe to get over it, and the Atlantic and the Dutch canals do not much help. Howell...
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William Dean Howells (1837–1920) was an American novelist, literary critic, and editor. He edited The Atlantic Monthly from 1871 to 1881 and advocated for literary realism. His works include the novels The Rise of Silas Lapham, Indian Summer, and The Kentons, as well as the critical study Criticism and Fiction.
William Dean Howells (1837–1920) was an American novelist, literary critic, and editor. He edited The Atlantic Monthly from 1871 to 1881 and advocated for literary realism. His works include the novels The Rise of Silas Lapham, Indian Summer, and The Kentons, as well as the critical study Critici...
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