TY - BOOK AU - Howells,William Dean TI - Through the Eye of the Needle: A Romance AV - PS PY - 2005/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction KW - Utopias -- Fiction KW - Love stories KW - Epistolary fiction KW - Utopian fiction KW - United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918 -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through_the_Eye_of_the_Needle; Release date is 2005-06-01; Produced by Suzanne Shell, Mary Musser, Charles Franks, David Widger, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team; Original publication data not identified N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8295 ER -