A Modern Instance by William Dean Howells
"A Modern Instance" by William Dean Howells is a novel published in 1882. It traces the disintegration of a marriage between Bartley Hubbard and Marcia Gaylord as they move from small-town Maine to Boston. What begins as romance gradually unravels through moral weakness, jealousy, and emotional imbalance. As the marriage collapses, those around them become entangled in the wreckage. This groundbreaking work was the first major American novel to treat divorce as
a realistic possibility, establishing Howells as a champion of literary realism. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 |
|---|---|
| Title | A Modern Instance |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modern_Instance |
| Credits |
Produced by Charles Aldarondo, Tiffany Vergon, Olaf Voss, David Widger and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 79.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Marriage -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 8203 |
| Release Date | Jun 1, 2005 |
| Most Recently Updated | Dec 23, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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