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A Traveler from Altruria by William Dean Howells

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A Traveler from Altruria
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Publisher: Harper & Brothers Publishers
ISBN/ASIN: 813203113X
Number of pages: 338

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A utopian novel, set during the early 1890s in a fashionable summer resort somewhere on the East Coast of the United States. The social differences in America are shown by having the rich of the society staying at a luxurious resort near the farms of workers in a lower class.

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