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A visitor from a utopian republic encounters a group of Americans—including a novelist, a banker, a lawyer, and a minister—at a fashionable summer resort in this 1894 satirical portrait of American life and government by William Dean Howells. A companion novel, Through the Eye of the Needle, would follow in 1907.
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William Dean Howells was a realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, as well as for his own prolific writings.
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