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The Kentons

  • William Dean Howells

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From the book:The Kentons were not rich, but they were certainly richer than the average in the pleasant county town of the Middle West, where they had spent nearly their whole married life. As their circumstances had grown easier, they had mellowed more and more in the keeping of their comfortable home, until they hated to leave it even for the short outings, which their children made them take, to Niagara or the Upper Lakes in the hot weather. They believed that they could not be so well anywhere as in the great square brick house which still kept its four acres about it, in the heart of the growing town, where the trees they had planted with their own hands topped it on three aides, and a spacious garden opened southward behind it to the summer wind. Kenton had his library, where he transacted by day such law business as he had retained in his own hands; but at night he liked to go to his wife's room and sit with her there. They left the parlors and piazzas to their girls, where they could hear them laughing with the young fellows who came to make the morning calls, long since disused in the centres of fashion, or the evening calls, scarcely more authorized by the great world. She sewed, and he read his paper in her satisfactory silence, or they played checkers together. She did not like him to win, and when she found herself unable to bear the prospect of defeat, she refused to let him make the move that threatened the safety of her men. Sometimes he laughed at her, and sometimes he scolded, but they were very good comrades, as elderly married people are apt to be.

Genres

  • Classic Literature
  • Fiction
  • American fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • Fiction, historical, general
  • Teachers, fiction
  • Social life and customs
  • Europe, fiction
  • Sons
  • Toleration
  • Tinkers
  • Irish Travellers (Nomadic people)
  • Fils
  • Romans, nouvelles
  • Voyageurs irlandais (Nomades)
  • Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
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About the author

  • William Dean Howells

    1 March 1837 - 11 May 1920

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    Pinnacle Press

    May 25, 2017

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    CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

    Jan 26, 2012

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    Harper

    1920

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    Harper & Brothers Publishers

    1902

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Harper & Brothers Publishers

1902

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    Harper and Brothers

    1902

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    Echo Library

    January 16, 2007

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    Project Gutenberg

    2004

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    Scholarly Press, Scholarly Pr

    1920

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    1st World Library - Literary Society

    November 2, 2006

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    Harper & Brothers Publishers

    1902

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    Indiana University Press

    1971

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    1st World Library - Literary Society

    November 2, 2006

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    IndyPublish.com

    July 2003

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    Harper & Brothers Publishers

    1902

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    Kessinger Publishing, LLC

    July 25, 2007

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    BiblioBazaar

    August 20, 2007

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    CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

    2018

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    2018

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    CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

    2018

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    Publishers of the Valley

    2018

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    CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

    2014

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    2018

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    CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

    2015

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    2015

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    2015

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    2017

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    2013

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    CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

    2009

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    Creative Media Partners, LLC

    2021

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    Creative Media Partners, LLC

    2023

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    tredition Verlag

    2011

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    Harper & Brothers

    1902-01-01

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    Independently Published

    2021

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    Independently Published

    2019

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    Barnes & Noble, Incorporated

    2011

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    Start Publishing LLC

    2015

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    Creative Media Partners, LLC

    2008

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    Creative Media Partners, LLC

    2008

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    Digireads.com Publishing

    2004

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    Kessinger Publishing, LLC

    2004

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    Seltzer Books

    2009

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    Folcroft Library Editions

    1973

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    Reprint Services Corp

    January 1902

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    Indiana University Press

    1971

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    Indiana University Press

    1971

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    1902

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    Greenwood Press

    1969