Ebook {Epub PDF} A Traveler from Altruria by William Dean Howells

This novel from popular nineteenth-century American author William Dean Howells features a visitor from a mysterious distant island known as Altruria. The contrast between the utopian island community and conditions in s America provides remarkable insight into the social and cultural issues fac. A Traveler from Altruria, by William Dean Howells; ; New York, Harper. Originally published in instalments in Cosmopolitan, this piece of utopian fiction by William Dean Howells delivers a vision of a "one-class" socialist utopia while at once offering a biting critique of unfettered capitalism. The story centres around a visit to America of Mr Homos, a citizen of a mysterious island called Altruria, which . 12 rows ·  · Howells, William Dean, Title: A Traveler from Altruria: Romance Language.

A Traveller from Altruria. William Dean Howells ( - ). Set in the early s, at a fashionable summer resort somewhere on the East Coast of the United States, this book tells the story of Mr. Twelvemough, an author who has been selected to function as host to a visitor from the faraway island of Altruria. LibriVox recording of A Traveller from Altruria by William Dean Howells. Read in English by Foon; realisticspeakers; Mark Nelson; Matthew D. Robinson; taniles Set in the early s, at a fashionable summer resort somewhere on the East Coast of the United States, this book tells the story of Mr. Twelvemough, an author who has been selected to function as host to a visitor from the faraway. William Dean Howells, A Traveler from Altruria () 1. William Dean Howells was raised by a small-town newspaper publisher in Ohio in the Jacksonian era. His father was an antislavery activist, which often brought the family economic trouble, and by his late teens William had moved out of his father's shop and become a writer for Republican.

LibriVox recording of A Traveller from Altruria by William Dean Howells. Read in English by Foon; realisticspeakers; Mark Nelson; Matthew D. Robinson; taniles Set in the early s, at a fashionable summer resort somewhere on the East Coast of the United States, this book tells the story of Mr. Twelvemough, an author who has been selected to function as host to a visitor from the faraway island of Altruria. A Traveler from Altruria is a Utopian novel by William Dean Howells. It was first published in installments in The Cosmopolitan between November and October , and eventually in book form by Harper Brothers in The novel is a critique of unfettered capitalism and its consequences, and of the Gilded Age. A Traveler from Altruria. First published in , A Traveler from Altruria tells the story of a foreign visitor who presents the concept of a Utopian society. Howells hoped his novel would allow readers to confront the inconsistencies, imperfections, and injustices of Gilded Age America.