The Garotters
About this book
This one-act farce by American realist William Dean Howells is a light comedy concerning garotters—street robbers who attacked by strangling their victims. It will appeal to readers of nineteenth-century American drama and those exploring Howells's shorter comic works.
William Dean Howells
William Dean Howells was an American realist novelist, literary critic, playwright, and diplomat, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, as well as for the novels The Rise of Silas Lapham and A Traveler from Altruria, and the Christmas story "Christmas Every Day", which was adapted into a 1996 film of the same name.
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