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[amlitlover]

The Pony Engine and the Pacific Express

William Dean Howells: "Once there was a little Pony Engine that used to play round the Fitchburg Depot on the side tracks, and sleep in among the big locomotives in the car-house—” https://americanliterature.com/author/william-dean-howells/short-story/the-pony-engine-and-the-pacific-express

[deraywrites]

#foodforthought #morningmeditations #lifelessons #mindbodyspirit #WilliamDeanHowells #December28 #RIPMom #RIPTracie (at New Jersey)

[michaelfreeze]

He who sleeps in continual #NOISE is wakened by silence. #WordofTheDay #WilliamDeanHowells #MyLifeRightNow #Goals #Grind #Gains #GETAFTERIT #TuesdayMotivation #BeBetterThanYesterday (at Plain Township)

[theunwrittenones]

William Dean Howells was born on this day in 1837. happy birthday! • • #theunwrittenones #rolandkris #gdangier #haydenlovren #writersofinstagram #writersoftumblr #author #writerslife #writing #writerscommunity #writersconnection #writerscorner #booksagram #writer #booklovers #bookish #writersofig #amwriting #authorlife #writingishard #like #follow #happybirthday #williamdeanhowells (hier: Berlin, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/BueyQW5HyWu/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=13lbpps7x66yh

[chipslater]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCigq8fo7Pk)

Twain and Howells On Each Other ♦ By Mark Twain and William Dean Howells ♦ Audiobook

Title:  Twain and Howells On Each Other

Authors: Mark Twain and William Dean Howells

Genre(s): Biography & Autobiography, Essays & Short Works

Language: English

Read By:  John Greenman

Librivox Recording

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and William Dean Howells were friends for 44 years. Their personal and professional relationship is considered by many to be one of the most important in American literature. Howells published his famous "My Mark Twain" in the same year Clemens died, 1910. A few years earlier, Clemens wrote this "remembrance" and "appreciation" of the man who stuck with him through the ups and downs of his long literary journey. (John Greenman)

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[amlitlover]

William Dean Howell’s “Pumpkin-Glory”

William Dean Howells: "The good little pumpkin vine said, 'Oh, I'm just going to stay here, and grow and grow, and put out all the blossoms I can, and let them all drop off but one, and then grow that into the biggest and fattest and sweetest pumpkin that ever was for Thanksgiving pies.'"

[amlitlover]

Warm up for Thanksgiving with nostalgic short stories

Put yourself in the mood for all that makes Thanksgiving so special, short stories where food takes center stage. https://americanliterature.com/foodie-stories 

[amlitlover]

The Chick of the Easter Egg

William Dean Howells: "While Easter eggs mostly hatched rabbits, there were instances in which they hatched other things, especially in the case of the golden eggs that the goose laid. They knew all about that goose..." https://americanliterature.com/author/william-dean-howells/short-story/the-chick-of-the-easter-egg 

[amlitlover]

The Chick of the Easter Egg

William Dean Howells: "I only know I've always had a soft spot in my heart for Easter, not so much because of the calico eggs, perhaps, as because of the grandmothers and the aunts." https://americanliterature.com/author/william-dean-howells/short-story/the-chick-of-the-easter-egg

[amlitlover]

Christmas Every Day?

William Dean Howells: "Nonsense! It was Christmas yesterday." Then all at once it flashed on the little girl that the Fairy was keeping her promise, her year of Christmases was beginning. Dreadfully sleepy, she sprang up like a lark. "There it was again!" https://americanliterature.com/author/william-dean-howells/short-story/christmas-every-day

[amlitlover]

What if turkeys could turn the tables?

https://americanliterature.com/author/william-dean-howells/short-story/turkeys-turning-the-tables

[amlitlover]

William Dean Howell’s Pony Engine

"Well, the thing the little Pony Engine wanted to be, the most in this world, was the locomotive of the Pacific Express. It intended to apply as soon as its cow-catcher was grown, always trying to attract the locomotive's attention." https://americanliterature.com/author/william-dean-howells/short-story/the-pony-engine-and-the-pacific-express