Product Description
Matthew Lanfear had stopped off, between Genoa and Nice, at San Remo in the interest of a friend who had come over on the steamer with him, and who wished him to test the air before settling there for the winter with an invalid wife. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

Not so hot
This book has 7 short stories written in 1907. Six of them are in first person, with the same narrator. He's a psychologist telling about things that happened to him and his friends. I found only the first 2 stories to be worth reading, the rest are mediocre or worse.
... Read more

Product Description
Sender Garlin is a veteran journalist and pamphleteer who has interviewed such figures as Theodore Dreiser, Clarence Darrow and Emma Goldman, and was present at all the Moscow purge trials of the 1930s. Here he writes on three Americans involved in forging a new political force before, and just after, the turn of the century. ... Read more

Product Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

Product Description
One daynear the close of the seventeenth centurya number of ladies and gentlemen¿mostly poets and poetesses according to their thinking were assembled on a pleasant hill in the neighborhood of Rome. ... Read more

Product Description
Literary Boston as I Knew It (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by William Dean Howells is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of William Dean Howells then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. ... Read more

Product Description
The scheme of a banquet to celebrate the initial success of 'Every Other Week' expanded in Fulkerson's fancy into a series. Instead of the publishing and editorial force, with certain of the more representative artists and authors sitting down to a modest supper in Mrs. Leighton's parlors, he conceived of a dinner at Delmonico's, with the principal literary and artistic, people throughout the country as guests, and an inexhaustible hospitality to reporters and correspondents, from whom paragraphs, prophetic and historic, would flow weeks before and after the first of the series. He said the thing was a new departure in magazines; it amounted to something in literature as radical as the American Revolution in politics: it was the idea of self government in the arts; and it was this idea that had never yet been fully developed in regard to it. That was what must be done in the speeches at the dinner, and the speeches must be reported. Then it would go like wildfire.


Download A Hazard Of New Fortunes Voulme 3Now! ... Read more

Product Description
This collection includes: Criticism and Fiction, The Elevator, Fennel and Rue, The Garotters, The Man of Letters as a Man of Business, An Open-Eyed Conspiracy, The Parlor Car, The Register, The Sleeping-Car, American Literary Centers, A Belated Guest, Buying a Horse ... Read more

Product Description
Several of the ladies admitted that it was the greatest slavery in the world, and that it would be comparative luxury to do one's own work. But they all asked, in one form or another, what were they to do, and Mrs. Strange owned that she did not know. The facetious gentleman asked me how the ladies did in Altruria, and when I told them, as well as I could, they were, of course, very civil about it, but I could see that they all thought it impossible, or, if not impossible, then ridiculous. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (4)

Wow!
A very interesting and insightful book on life in a future or different earth, as seen from a 'bad' New York City of the future, (except the future takes place around now), and how that future NY is so different then another 'utopia' type place.

I'm a city guy, but the books describes the perfect society so well, that even a city boy could long for it.

I can understand how this book became such a great seller when it was written.I had this book assigned to me on a course about views of the future written in the past.

I'm very glad to have read it, and would recommend it to anyone who enjoys Utopian scenarios.

Good story but...
I did like the book, but not the reason it was written.It will be considered Utopian, however personally I don't like this form of utopian, very christian, agrarian, etc.However the book makes a great case for the reasons behind this choice and is fascinating in explaining the 'past' of a 'bad America' (that did not happen).

I am glad I read it, as I do enjoy all utopian and distopian novels and films.

Some very good material, good enough that some people actually set up a community based on this novel.Cool!

One of the best descriptions of a perfect utopian America
I'm the first to say that the utopian vision of Howells's is good.In fact, I don't know how a rational person would say otherwise, it is one of the best descriptions of a utopian world that I have ever read.However, having said that, I am not sure if I would wish to live there.I like to think that I am rational, but I am flawed, and wonder if I would be part of the community.Perhaps all of us think this way, and yet wish to be perfect, and perhaps that is why we are drawn to utopian visions.

Through the Eye of the Needle is one of the best descriptions of a perfect utopian America, and I can't find fault with it.If you like utopian or dystopian fiction, I think you will find this one of the best of its kind.I would also like to ask this question: would you like to live in such a place?

This utopian book was used to make an actual community in California!
I ordered this book because I enjoy reading both utopian and dystopian works, and I was not at all disappointed Through the Eye, however what intrigued me the most was the fact that an actual town or community was set up in (California where else?) based on this novel. I can understand reality imitating art, but this is really something else, so I had to read the book, since it must have moved so many people (moved them in the real sense!).

I guess, given the time, I could actually see how people could fall in love with the ideals of the book, and it makes sense, in fiction, and perhaps, in our dreams.I think that man can write about utopian ideals makes them possible, at least in our minds they are possible, and Through the Eye does one of the best jobs of making you think it is more than just a dream, put a potential reality.

In that sense the author does a great job.
... Read more

Product Description
This title has fewer than 24 printed text pages.

Staccato Notes of a Vanished Summer (from Literature and Life) is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by William Dean Howells is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of William Dean Howells then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. ... Read more

Product Description
Last Days in a Dutch Hotel (from Literature and Life) is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by William Dean Howells is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of William Dean Howells then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. ... Read more

Product Description
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

Product Description
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885 novel The Rise of Silas Lapham is perhaps his best known, describing the rise and fall of an American entrepreneur in the paint business. His social views were also strongly reflected in the novels Annie Kilburn (1888) and A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890). While known primarily as a novelist, his short story "Editha" (1905) - included in the collection Between the Dark and the Daylight (1907) - appears in many anthologies of American literature. Howells also wrote plays, criticism, and essays about contemporary literary figures such as Ibsen, Zola, Verga, and, especially, Tolstoy, which helped establish their reputations in the United States. He also wrote critically in support of many American writers. It is perhaps in this role that he had his greatest influence. ... Read more

Product Description
The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Drama / General; Drama / American; Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Drama / Continental European; ... Read more

Product Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

Product Description
Originally published in 1910.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

Product Description
This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the text that can both be accessed online and used to create new print copies. This book and thousands of others can be found in the digital collections of the University of Michigan Library. The University Library also understands and values the utility of print, and makes reprints available through its Scholarly Publishing Office. ... Read more

Product Description
Mark Twain once famously said "there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past and can't be restored."  Well, over recent years, The British Library, working with Microsoft has embarked on an ambitious programme to digitise its collection of 19th century books.

There are now 65,000  titles available  (that's an incredible 25 million pages) of material ranging from works by famous names such as  Dickens, Trollope and Hardy as well as many forgotten literary gems , all of which can now be printed on demand and purchased right here on Amazon.

Further information on The British Library and its digitisation programme can be found on The British Library website. ... Read more

Product Description
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more