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by Howells William Dean

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Do you like Utopias?.. Then you have made the right choice. The book you have now is the third one in trilogy about Alturia. This time again the author chose the form of epistolary novel – the main character writes letters to his friend Cyril. He is a resident of Alturia – Utopian community in California. How is it to live there?.. Let’s have a look at Homos’ letters. There is no money in Alturia, so citizens have already forgotten the meanings of words «rich» and «poor». They don’t have to save as they can get everything they need any time. They don’t have to work hard – the workload is shared so that three hours a day is enough and even these little hours are turned into merry, lovely process. Want to find out more? Want... Read more

ISBN: 1172214964

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...comically. But I have always the sense of having a part in amateurtheatricals, and I do not see how the Americans can fail to have the samesense, for there is nothing spontaneous in them, and nothing that hasgrown even dramatically out of their own life. Often when I admire the perfection of the stage-setting, it is with avague feeling that I am derelict in not offering it an explicit applause. In fact, this is permitted in some sort and measure, as now when we satdown at Mrs. Makely's exquisite table, and the ladies frankly recognizedher touch in it. One of them found a phrase for it at once, andpronounced it a symphony in chrysanthemums; for the color and thecharacter of these flowers played through all the appointments of thetable, and rose to a magnificent finale in the vast group in the middleof the board, infinite in their caprices of tint and design. Another ladysaid that it was a dream, and then Mrs. Makely said, "No, a memory, " andconfessed that she had studied the effect...