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The Shadow of a Dream and An Imperative Duty
The Shadow of a Dream and An Imperative Duty Author:Edwin H. Cady These two nouvelles mark Howells' plunge into psychological realism. Their themes-a triangle of tragic agonies with psychological insights intriguingly proto-Freudian, and a drama of miscegenation-are anything but the smiling, lightweight topics to which Howells has been supposed to have been confined. The maturity both of their art and of their... more » moral insight lends them an impact much deeper and more permanent than that of the shriller, more merely commercial shocking fiction of our day.« less