@booklet {218, title = {Through the Eye of the Needle; A Romance with an Introduction}, year = {1907}, note = {

Part I had been originally published as the last six (except for part of \“Letter IX\”) of \“Letters of An Altrurian Traveller.\” The Cosmopolitan 16 - 17 (April - September 1894): 697-704 with the subtitle \“How People live in a Plutocratic City\”; 46-58 with the subtitle \“Plutocratic Housing\”; 221-28 with the subtitle \“Dinner, Very Informally\”; 352-59 with the subtitle \“The Selling and Giving of Dinners\”; 495-99 with the subtitle \“An Altruistic Plutocrat\”; and 610-18 with the subtitle \“A Plutocratic Triumph.\” The first two letters 16 (November - December 1893): 110-16, 218-32 were first rpt. in Letters of an Altrurian Traveller (1893-94). Ed. Clara M. Kirk and Rudolf Kirk. Gainesville, FL: Scholars\’ Fascimiles \& Reprints, 1961, which includes all the letters. Letters III, IV, V and part of IX became essays in his Impressions and Experiences. New York: Harper \& Brothers, 1896. Critical ed. as The Altrurian Romances. Introduction and Notes to the Text by Clara and Rudolf Kirk. Text Established by Scott Bennett (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968), 265-442.\ 

}, month = {1907}, publisher = {Harper and Bros.}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Sequel to 1894 Howells describing an altruistic Arcadian eutopia. The \"Introduction\" critiques the picture of the U.S. presented in the first volume by the man from Altruria and suggests that the depiction of Altruria in this volume presents a flawed utopia.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {William Dean Howells (1837-1920)} } @booklet {7897, title = {The Traveler from Altruria}, year = {1894}, note = {

Rpt. ed. David W. Levy. Boston, MA: Bedford Books of St. Martin\’s Press, 1996. Parts, in a different version, were first published as \“A Traveller from Altruria.\”\ The Cosmopolitan: a Monthly Illustrated Magazine\ 14 - 15 (November 1892 - October 1893): 52-58, 251-56, 341-47, 495-500, 633-40, 697-705; 39-46, 249-56, 305-10, 449-56, 635-40, 738-49. This version rpt. in\ Letters of an Altrurian Traveller (1893-94). Ed. Clara M. Kirk and Rudolf Kirk. Gainesville, FL: Scholars\’ Facsimiles \& Reprints, 1961. Critical ed. as\ The Altrurian Romances. Introduction and Notes to the Text by Clara and Rudolf Kirk. Text established by Scott Bennett (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968), 5-179. An extract from the first story was published in Edward Bellamy\’s\ The New Nation\ (Boston, MA) 2.48 (November 26, 1892): 701-02.

}, month = {1894}, publisher = {Harper and Bros.}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

This and its sequel (see 1907 Howells) depict first the troubles of the contemporary United States and then an arcadia. Simpler life. Cities gradually disappear. Home and family central to Altrurian life. No money. Christian. Altruria equals altruism.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {William Dean Howells (1837-1920)} }