The Black Heart's Truth: The Early Career of W. D. Howells

by John W. Crowley and John William Crowley

W. D. Howells once wrote to his friend Mark Twain of "the black heart's-truth, which we all know of ourselves in our hearts" -- the dark core of inner life that underlies "the whity-brown truth of the pericardium, or the nice, whitened truth of the shirt front."

For Howells, a writer with a lifelong history of psychological disturbances, telling this "black heart's-truth" evinced his courage and imaginative spirit. John W. Crowley examines...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807865273
• ISBN13: 9780807865279
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"