Literature And Life

"Literature and Life" by William Dean Howells is a collection of essays that explores the relationship between literature and everyday life. The book is divided into three parts: "The Man of Letters in the World," "The Man of Letters in Business," and "The Romance of the Commonplace." In the first section, Howells argues that literature should reflect the society it is created in, and that writers should not isolate themselves from the world. In the second section, he discusses the role of liter