# Years of My Youth

Author: Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47060

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Years+of+My+Youth+Howells&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Whenever I visit the region of a famous man's youth I have the feeling that I ought to discover there some clue to the secret of his greatness; for I cannot help fancying that the environment must have molded him and been an essential element in the development of his individuality and power. It was with such expectations that I recently went to Ohio, just as spring was verging into summer, to see the land where Mr. Howells spent the years of which he has made so frank and appealing a record in this volume. In the middle of the last century the State retained much of the crude primitiveness of the frontier, and I wondered what stimulus this could have offered in creating a genius so broad...

## Chapters

- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/years-of-my-youth-47060/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/years-of-my-youth-47060/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/years-of-my-youth-47060/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/years-of-my-youth-47060/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/years-of-my-youth-47060/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/years-of-my-youth-47060/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/years-of-my-youth-47060/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/years-of-my-youth-47060/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/years-of-my-youth-47060/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Part 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/years-of-my-youth-47060/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/years-of-my-youth-47060/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/years-of-my-youth-47060/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/years-of-my-youth-47060/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/years-of-my-youth-47060/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/years-of-my-youth-47060/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/years-of-my-youth-47060/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/years-of-my-youth-47060/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/years-of-my-youth-47060/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/years-of-my-youth-47060/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/years-of-my-youth-47060/chapters/20/index.md)