# The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors

By William Dean Howells and others.

"The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors" by William Dean Howells et al. is a collaborative novel serialized in 1907-08. Twelve different authors each wrote a chapter following a New England family disrupted by their daughter's engagement. What began as William Dean Howells's controlled experiment in literary realism spiraled into chaos when Mary E. Wilkins Freeman transformed a quiet spinster aunt into a vibrant, sexually magnetic woman—enraging fellow contributors and derailing the planned narrative in unexpected directions. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Subjects: Domestic fiction

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## Audiobooks of it

- [Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/4061) by Various (7 h 32 min, English)
- [Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors, Version 2](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/20427) by Various (7 h 13 min, English)

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