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A Traveler from Altruria

A Traveler from Altruria
William Dean Howells

A Traveler from Altruria is a Utopian novel by William Dean Howells. It was first published in installments in The Cosmopolitan between November 1892 and October 1893, and eventually in book form by Harper & Brothers in 1894. The novel is a critique of unfettered capitalism and its consequences, and of the Gilded Age.

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“People naturally despise a dependant.”

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