A novelist reluctantly hosts Mr. Homos, a traveller from the distant commonwealth of Altruria, at a fashionable summer resort. The visitor’s innocent questions to a banker, a professor, a manufacturer, society ladies and farmers expose how Gilded Age Americans justify inequality, until he describes the cooperative society of his own country.
Howells’s gentle, pointed utopian satire, a key work of 1890s American social criticism. Download the free EPUB.