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The Sleeping-Car: A Farce
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A short farce set aboard a railroad sleeping car, where comic misunderstandings among the nighttime passengers provide the humor. It suits readers interested in nineteenth-century American drama, light comedy, or the plays of William Dean Howells.
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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