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The Landloper

Holman Day

The Landloper

Paper book: €30.99

Digital: €6.99

Original publication
1915
Monolingual
12 June 2026
Pages
772
Difficulty
Easy
Genres
Adventure, Travel Writing
Moods
Escape it all, Understand myself
Translated from
English

Book summary

One June morning, a young man who calls himself Walker Farr is walking the roads of New England. He looks like a tramp, but he speaks like an educated man and hides his past. He stops at Marion, a cotton-mill town. Typhoid is striking its poor families, because of the water sold by Colonel Dodd's company.

Dodd also controls the state's politicians. Asking nothing for himself, Farr joins the fight against him, and meets Kate Kilgour, Dodd's secretary. A lively novel about the courage of one man against a political machine.

Absorbing from start to finish, this story is easy to read in the language you are learning.

The plot

放浪者、町の貧しい人々のために立つ。すり切れた服の青年ウォーカー・ファーは、アメリカ北東部の道をひとり歩いている。どこから来たのか、誰も知らない。

The world of the book

工場のまわりに生まれた町。1915年ごろ、アメリカ北東部には大きな工場町がいくつもあった。川沿いには織物工場が立ち並ぶ。そこで何千人もの労働者が働き、その多くはカナダのケベックから来た人々だった。彼らは大きな集合住宅にひしめき合って暮らす。物語では、ただ一つの会社がすべての町に水を売り、政治家まで牛耳っている。

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