The Minister's Charge (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

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<div><p>This 1886 novel introduces Howells's conceptderived from Tolstoyof moral complicity, which would play a large part in his fiction from this point on.  A poor farmer, Lemuel Barker, comes to Boston with dreams of becoming a poet.  Instead, his naïveté leaves him an easy mark, and he is soon destitute.  A minister, Sewell, is forced to consider his own complicity in Barker's fate . . . and by extension that of all his less-fortunate fellows.</p></div>

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<div><p><b>William Dean Howells</b> (1837-1920) was an American novelist and critic.&#xa0; He edited the<i>Atlantic Monthly</i> from 1871-1881, where he championed literary realism and advanced the careers of such important American writers as Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, and Henry James.&#xa0; His best known novel is<i>The Rise of Silas Lapham</i> (1885).</p></div>

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