A Sleep and a Forgetting

by William Dean Howells

Unless she was out of her mind there was no way of accounting for her behavior...

Nowhere in the prodigious output of William Dean Howells is there an example more poignant of his heart-felt dedication to the realist movement than this achingly suspensfull novella.

The story centers on a young "alienist"--a psychologist--who meets a young woman who, at subsequent encounters, has no recollection of him. The doctor launches a psychological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0976658380
• ISBN13: 9780976658382
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Melville House Publishing
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 7.1"