# A Modern Instance

Author: Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920

Genre: Category: Romance

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8203

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=A+Modern+Instance+Howells&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Mr. Howells has written a long series of poems, novels, sketches, stories, and essays, and has been perhaps the most continuous worker in the literary art among American writers. He was born at Martin's Perry, Belmont County, Ohio, March 1, 1837, and the experiences of his early life have been delightfully told by himself in _A Boy's Town_, _My Year in a Log Cabin_, and _My Literary Passions_. These books, which seem like pastimes in the midst of Howells's serious work, are likely to live long, not only as playful autobiographic records, but as vivid pictures of life in the middle west in the middle of the nineteenth century. The boy lived in a home where frugality was the law of economy,...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-modern-instance-8203/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-modern-instance-8203/chapters/28/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-modern-instance-8203/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-modern-instance-8203/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-modern-instance-8203/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Chapter 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-modern-instance-8203/chapters/26/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-modern-instance-8203/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-modern-instance-8203/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-modern-instance-8203/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-modern-instance-8203/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 33](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-modern-instance-8203/chapters/33/index.md)
- [Chapter 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-modern-instance-8203/chapters/25/index.md)
- [Chapter 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-modern-instance-8203/chapters/27/index.md)
- [Chapter 34](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-modern-instance-8203/chapters/34/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-modern-instance-8203/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-modern-instance-8203/chapters/24/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-modern-instance-8203/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 29](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-modern-instance-8203/chapters/29/index.md)
- [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-modern-instance-8203/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-modern-instance-8203/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-modern-instance-8203/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-modern-instance-8203/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-modern-instance-8203/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-modern-instance-8203/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 32](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-modern-instance-8203/chapters/32/index.md)
- [Chapter 36](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-modern-instance-8203/chapters/36/index.md)
- [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-modern-instance-8203/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Chapter 30](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-modern-instance-8203/chapters/30/index.md)
- [Chapter 35](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-modern-instance-8203/chapters/35/index.md)
- [Chapter 31](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-modern-instance-8203/chapters/31/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-modern-instance-8203/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-modern-instance-8203/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-modern-instance-8203/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-modern-instance-8203/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-modern-instance-8203/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-modern-instance-8203/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 37](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-modern-instance-8203/chapters/37/index.md)