Information: - The Rise of Silas Lapham is a realist novel by William Dean Howells published in 1885. The story follows the materialistic rise of Silas Lapham from rags to riches, and his ensuing moral susceptibility. Silas earns a fortune in the paint business, but he lacks social standards, which he tries to attain through his daughter's marriage into the aristocratic Corey family. Silas' morality does not fail him. He loses his money but makes the right moral decision when his partner proposes the unethical selling of the mills to English settlers. - Through the Eye of the Needle : A Romance is a 1907 Utopian novel written by William Dean Howells . It is the final volume in Howells 's '' Altrurian trilogy , '' following A Traveler from Altruria ( 1894 ) and Letters of an Altrurian Traveler ( 1904 ) . Like the second book in the trilogy , Howells casts the third and final book in the form of an epistolary novel -- a form favored by some other Utopian and dystopian writers . ( For examples , see : The Republic of the Future ; Caesar 's Column . ) In the final book , Aristides Homos , Howells 's Altrurian protagonist , writes a series of letters home to his friend Cyril . Homos is now located in the densely urban environment of New York City , where he confronts the contrasts between America c. 1900 and his own pastoral and agrarian Utopianism in their most extreme forms . The dramatic center of the book is the love affair between Homos and Evelith Strange , a wealthy widow of the American plutocracy . Evelith has chosen the life of a socialite because she is frustrated by the limited effects of '' good works '' -- though her routine of idleness conflicts with her Christian values and her conscience . Evelith must decide whether to abandon her social position and her fortune to follow Homos back to Altruria . Eventually , Evelith marries Homos , and both she and her mother return with him to Altruria . Curiously , the mother - in - law finds the adjustment relatively easy , since she realizes that she has returned to the simpler life she knew in her youth . Howells gives the moral writings of Leo Tolstoy an important role in the book -- though not with naive acceptance . At one point , Evelith tells Homos that '' Tolstoy himself does n't destroy his money , though he wants other people to do it . His wife keeps it and supports the family . '' The story also includes Homos 's travels abroad , and his commentaries on the societies he visits . - The Gilded Age in United States history is the late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900. The term for this period came into use in the 1920s and 1930s and was derived from writer Mark Twain's 1873 novel "", which satirized an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gilding. The early half of the Gilded Age roughly coincided with the middle portion of the Victorian era in Britain and the Belle Epoque in France. It was preceded by the Reconstruction Era that ended in 1877 and was succeeded by the Progressive Era that began in the 1890s. - A Traveler from Altruria is a Utopian novel by William Dean Howells. It was first published in installments in "The Cosmopolitan" between November 1892 and October 1893, and eventually in book form by Harper & Brothers in 1894. The novel is a critique of unfettered capitalism and its consequences, and of the Gilded Age. - William Dean Howells (March 1, 1837 May 11, 1920) was an American 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 his own prolific writings, including the Christmas story "Christmas Every Day", and the novels "The Rise of Silas Lapham" and "A Traveler from Altruria". What entity does 'through the eye of the needle' has the relation 'publisher' with?
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