Through the Eye of the Needle: A Romance by William Dean Howells
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"Through the Eye of the Needle: A Romance" by William Dean Howells is a utopian novel published in 1907. The final volume in Howells's Altrurian trilogy, it follows Aristides Homos as he navigates New York City's stark contrasts with his pastoral utopian homeland. Through letters to a friend, Homos chronicles his romance with Evelith Strange, a wealthy widow torn between her privileged life and her conscience. She must decide whether to abandon
her fortune and follow him to Altruria, where a simpler society awaits. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 |
|---|---|
| Title | Through the Eye of the Needle: A Romance |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through_the_Eye_of_the_Needle |
| Credits |
Produced by Suzanne Shell, Mary Musser, Charles Franks, David Widger, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 70.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction |
| Subject | Utopias -- Fiction |
| Subject | Love stories |
| Subject | Epistolary fiction |
| Subject | Utopian fiction |
| Subject | United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918 -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 8295 |
| Release Date | Jun 1, 2005 |
| Last Update | Feb 26, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 438 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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