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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

流浪者为一城穷人挺身而出。衣衫褴褛的年轻人沃克·法尔,独自走在美国东北部的道路上。没人知道他从哪里来。

The world of the book

围绕工厂兴起的城市。1915年前后,美国东北部有许多大型工厂城镇。纺织厂沿河而建,一座挨着一座。数千名工人在那里做工,其中许多人来自加拿大魁北克。他们挤住在大楼里。书中,一家公司独揽所有城市的供水,还操控着政客。

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