Complete Project Gutenberg William Dean Howells Literature Essays is part of the Historical, Psychological & Social Fiction catalogue. The record identifies Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 as the credited author and preserves a link to the source edition.

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The extracted text contains approximately 34,518 words, corresponding to an estimated 151 minutes of reading, and is divided into 3 detectable text sections. These figures describe the downloaded text file rather than a printed pagination system.

The automated text analysis reports an average sentence length of about 37.0 words and a measured lexical-diversity value of 0.136. These measurements are descriptive reading aids, not literary ratings.

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The source record associates this edition with the following subjects: Literature -- History and criticism, American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism, Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography. Catalog terms may reflect historical library practice and can be broader or narrower than a modern reader’s interpretation.

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