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    The Register
    The Register
    The Register
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    The Register

    By William Dean Howells

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    The Register is a humorous play by William Dean Howells. Howells was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright. Excerpt: ""Well, take off your coat, and pull up to the register, and warm your poor feet." He puts his hand out over the register. "Confound p. 121it! somebody's got the register open in the next room! You see, one pipe comes up from the furnace and branches into a V just under the floor, and professes to heat both rooms. But it don't. There was a fellow in there last winter who used to get all my heat. Used to go out and leave his register open, and I'd come in here just before dinner and find this place as cold as a barn. We had a running fight of it all winter. The man who got his register open first in the morning got all the heat for the day, for it never turned the other way when it started in one direction. Used to almost suffocate—warm, muggy days—maintaining my rights. Some piano-pounder in there this winter, it seems. Hear? And she hasn't lost any time in learning the trick of the register. What kept you so late in the country?"
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateDec 20, 2019
    ISBN4064066143107
    The Register
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    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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