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The Parlor Car
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A brief one-act farce set aboard a railroad parlor car, in which a young man and woman who have quarreled meet again by chance and are reconciled. Suitable for readers interested in nineteenth-century American drama, light romantic comedy, or Howells's shorter 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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