The complete online text of A Traveler from Altruria: Romance by William Dean Howells.

William Dean Howells, whose literary career began on the eve of the Civil War and ended after World War I, is one of the three most important American writers of the late nineteenth century. Samuel Langhorne Clemens and Henry James, both of whom were his...

William Dean Howells , whose literary career began on the eve of the Civil War and ended after World War I, is one of the three most important American writers of the late nineteenth century. Samuel Clemens and Henry James, both of whom were his close fr...

William Dean Howells combined a career as an important novelist with that of a journalist. As editor of The Atlantic Monthly and later as author of, or contributor to, the "Editor's Study" and "Editor's Easy Chair" columns in Harper's Monthly, he was an...

Byline: Thomas Walter, THE WASHINGTON TIMES VIEW FROM THE DECK See the Pacific Coast from the deck of Holland America Line's Veendam cruise ship on its four-night fall cruise from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Los Angeles. The ship makes one...

. Outside the Yarmouth visitor information center, John and Elizabeth Imad, a newly married couple from Yarmouth, Mass., were bound for Bar Harbor on Wednesday. They said they were unaware of a bridge problem. They already had planned to stay on Interstate 95 to...