A Traveller from Altruria

LibriVox recording of A Traveller from Altruria by William Dean Howells. Read in English by Foon; realisticspeakers; Mark Nelson; Matthew D. Robinson; taniles1364 Set in the early 1890s, 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. The visitor, Mr. Homos, has come all the way to the United States, a country which prides itself on democracy and equality, to experience everyday life in America firsthand, and to see