The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors
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About This Book
A unique novel told in chapters, each one by a different author. The unusual project was conceived by William Dean Howells, an American realist author and literary critic. Howells had hoped Mark Twain would be one of the authors, but Twain did not participate. The twelve authors are: Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, John Kendrick Bangs, Alice Brown, Mary Stewart Doubleday Cutting, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, William Dean Howells, Henry James, Elizabeth Garver Jordan, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Henry Van Dyke, Mary Heaton Vorse and Edith Wyatt.
Chapters (16)
- THE WHOLE FAMILY,
- A NOVEL BY TWELVE AUTHORS
- THE WHOLE FAMILY
- I. THE FATHER, by William Dean Howells
- II. THE OLD-MAID AUNT, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- III. THE GRANDMOTHER, by Mary Heaton Vorse
- IV. THE DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, by Mary Stewart Cutting
- V. THE SCHOOL-GIRL, by Elizabeth Jordan
- VI. THE SON-IN-LAW, by John Kendrick Bangs
- VII. THE MARRIED SON, by Henry James
- VIII. THE MARRIED DAUGHTER, By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
- IX. THE MOTHER, by Edith Wyatt
- X. THE SCHOOL-BOY, By Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
- Rabbits.
- XI. PEGGY, by Alice Brown
- XII. THE FRIEND OF THE FAMILY, by Henry Van Dyke
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