NMLP P-036342 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09

A Traveler from Altruria

William Dean Howells · Harper & Brothers (New York) · 1894

Howells built the novel around a visiting Altrurian's dialogue with American vacationers at a New England resort, using the device to critique Gilded Age inequality more directly than in his earlier realist fiction

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-036342 for "A Traveler from Altruria" by William Dean Howells (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-036342, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).