Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266481164
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (811 download)
Book Synopsis Letters of an Altrurian Traveller (Classic Reprint) by : William Dean Howells
Download or read book Letters of an Altrurian Traveller (Classic Reprint) written by William Dean Howells and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Letters of an Altrurian Traveller Before the month was ended, an. Even longer letter went to Cyril, this time from Chicago, where Homos had journeyed to visit the great Columbian Ex position of 1893. This second Letter, likewise never reprinted, is of especial interest to the modern reader. In it is expressed the hope that the United States might eventually evolve toward the Altrurian vision of Classical beauty and Christian brotherhood which almost miraculously had become embodied in the White City on the shores of Lake Michigan. Aristides had always thought of Chicago as merely a sort of ultimate Manhattan, the realized ideal of that lar'geness, loudness and fastness which New York has persuaded the Americans is metro politan. He added: But after seeing the World's Fair City here, I feel as if 'i had caught a glimpse of the glorious capitals which will whiten the hills and shores of the east and the borderless plains of the west, when the New York and the Newer York of today shall seem to all the future Americans as impossible as they would seem to any Altrurian now. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.