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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

流浪者為一城窮人挺身而出。衣衫襤褸的年輕人沃克·法爾,獨自走在美國東北部的道路上。沒人知道他從哪裡來。

The world of the book

圍繞工廠興起的城市。1915年前後,美國東北部有許多大型工廠城鎮。紡織廠沿河而建,一座挨著一座。數千名工人在那裡做工,其中許多人來自加拿大魁北克。他們擠住在大樓裡。書中,一家公司獨攬所有城市的供水,還操控著政客。

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