887. Henry Blake Fuller, 1857-1929

A Chicago banker, journalist, and novelist, Fuller wrote at a time when Chicago was going through a period of rapid social change, marked by expansion, material wealth, social ambition, and municipal corruption. Fuller knew this life so intimately that it naturally provided the material for his novels and short stories. These were written in the tradition of realism associated with the work of William Dean Howells, lacking as they did thenaturalistic view of American society later developed by Theodore Dreiser. In another and different mood Fuller reacted to a number of trips abroad by writing various volumes that record his enjoyment of Europe, among them The Chevalier of Pensieri-Vani (1890), a gently humorous book, half fact, half fancy, about experiences in Italy.

888. The cliff-dwellers, a novel. New York, Harper, 1893. 324 p. illus. 6-44578 PZ3.F957Cl

889. With the procession, a novel. New York, Harper, 1895. 336 p. 6-44576 PZ3.F957Wi