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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

Een landloper komt op voor de armen van een stad. Walker Farr, een jonge man in versleten kleren, loopt alleen over de wegen in het noordoosten van de Verenigde Staten. Niemand weet waar hij vandaan komt.

The world of the book

Steden die rond de fabrieken groeiden. Rond 1915 telt het noordoosten van de Verenigde Staten grote fabriekssteden. Textielfabrieken staan op een rij langs de rivieren. Er werken duizenden arbeiders, van wie velen uit…

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