A Traveler from Altruria: Romance by William Dean Howells
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"A Traveler from Altruria: Romance" by William Dean Howells is a utopian novel published in 1894. When a mysterious visitor from the island nation of Altruria arrives at a fashionable American resort, he challenges everything the privileged guests believe about democracy and equality. Through his innocent questions and unsettling behavior—helping servants, performing manual labor—Mr. Homos gradually reveals that his homeland far surpasses America in justice and morality. This pointed critique exposes the
greed and social divisions of Gilded Age capitalism. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 |
|---|---|
| Title | A Traveler from Altruria: Romance |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Traveler_from_Altruria |
| Credits |
Produced by Suzanne Shell, Charles Bidwell, David Widger and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 76.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Utopian fiction |
| Subject | United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918 -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 8449 |
| Release Date | Jul 1, 2005 |
| Last Update | Feb 26, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 526 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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