The complete online text of Through the Eye of the Needle 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...

TO JOHNNY, the house looked like a rotting tooth in the neighborhood's smile. This place hadn't seen a coat of paint in generations and he groaned at the thought of what he might find in the basement. He hated these jobs. You...

DR. SHELAGH WEIR gave a fascinating talk on "The Symbolism of Palestinian Embroidery and Costume" co-sponsored with the Mosaic Foundation, at the Palestine Center, on Nov. 27. Christ'l Safieh, wife of the PLO representative to the United States, introduced her friend, Dr. Weir, the...