Five O'Clock Tea: Farce

By William Dean Howells

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Dec 13, 2019
• ISBN: 4064066191986

William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells was a realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, as well as for his own prolific writings.

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William Dean Howells

Five O'Clock Tea: Farce

Published by Good Press, 2021

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EAN 4064066191986

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ILLUSTRATIONS

FIVE O'CLOCK TEA

I MRS. SOMERS; MR. WILLIS CAMPBELL

II MR. BEMIS; MRS. SOMERS; MR. WILLIS CAMPBELL

III MR. and MRS. ROBERTS and the OTHERS

IV MRS. CURWEN and the OTHERS

V DR. LAWTON, MR. and MRS. MILLER, YOUNG MR. and MRS. BEMIS, and the OTHERS

VI MRS. CRASHAW and the OTHERS

VII MRS. CANFIELD , MISS BAYLY, MRS. WHARTON, and the OTHERS

VIII MRS. SOMERS; MR. CAMPBELL

IX MRS. CURWEN; MRS. SOMERS; MR. CAMPBELL

X MRS. SOMERS; MR. CAMPBELL

XI MR. CAMPBELL and the OTHERS

XII MRS. SOMERS and the OTHERS

THE END

Harper's Black and White Series.

By WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS.

HARPER'S AMERICAN ESSAYISTS.

"'WILL YOU ANSWER MY QUESTION, AMY?'"

'WILL YOU ANSWER MY QUESTION, AMY?'

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FIVE O'CLOCK TEA

Farce

BY

W. D. HOWELLS

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK

HARPER AND BROTHERS

1894

Copyright, 1894, by

Harper & Brothers

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Copyright, 1885, by

Harper & Brothers

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Copyright, 1885, by

W. D. Howells

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All rights reserved.

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FIVE O'CLOCK TEA

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MRS. SOMERS; MR. WILLIS CAMPBELL

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MRS. Amy Somers, in a lightly floating tea-gown of singularly becoming texture and color, employs the last moments of expectance before the arrival of her guests in marching up and down in front of the mirror which fills the space between the long windows of her drawing-room, looking over either shoulder