clemens's

Updated: May 6, 2025

I do not remember just how their instant encounter was contrived by Arnold's wish, but I have the impression that they were not parted for long during the evening, and the next night Arnold, as if still under the glamour of that potent presence, was at Clemens's house.

William Dean Howells - Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship

This sort of readers, or buyers, were so used to getting something worthless for their money that they would not spend it for artistic fiction, or, indeed, for any fiction at all except Mr. Clemens's, which they probably supposed bad.

William Dean Howells - The Man of Letters as a Man of Business