Questionable Shapes

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Questionable Shapes

by William Dean Howells

EN·~3 hours·33 chapters

Chapters

33 total

QUESTIONABLE SHAPES - BY - W. D. HOWELLS

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AUTHOR OF “LITERARY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCE” “LITERATURE AND LIFE” “THE KENTONS” “THEIR SILVER WEDDING JOURNEY” ETC. ETC. - Published May, 1903

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HIS APPARITION. - I.

8:16

II.

2:18

III.

10:20

IV.

8:54

V.

4:33

VI.

5:18

VII.

4:59

VIII.

3:15
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Hewson awakens to an uncanny visitor—a luminous apparition that seems to bridge the ordinary world with something beyond. Rather than trembling, he catalogues the scene with a calm precision, noting the chorus of birds and the gentle dawn that surround the strange encounter. The experience leaves him with a lingering sense that the phenomenon may return, prompting an uneasy mix of curiosity and quiet anticipation.

Determined to understand what he has witnessed, Hewson leaves his home before sunrise, restless and hungry, and heads toward a nearby inn that bears a peculiar name. Along the way he wrestles with the tension between rational explanation and the inexplicable, hoping the day’s ordinary routine will either confirm or dispel the phantom’s presence. As the morning unfolds, the listener is drawn into his methodical yet unsettled quest to confront the mystery before it fades into memory.

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en

Duration

~3 hours (223K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Suzanne Shell, Mary Meehan, Tonya Allen, David Widger and Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders

Release date

Dec 1, 2005

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells

1837–1920

A leading voice of American realism, he brought sharp social observation and everyday life to the page. Best known for The Rise of Silas Lapham and his influential editorship of The Atlantic Monthly, he helped shape American literature in the late nineteenth century.

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