"Dream of a Free-Trade Paradise. A Laissez Faire Tale"
| Title | "Dream of a Free-Trade Paradise. A Laissez Faire Tale" |
| Year for Search | 1872 |
| Authors | Elder, Cyrus |
| Secondary Title | Dream of a Free Trade Paradise, and Other Sketches |
| Pagination | 11-20 |
| Date Published | 1872 |
| Publisher | Pub. for the Industrial League by Henry Carey Baird, Industrial Publisher |
| Place Published | Philadelphia, PA |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | Satire on free trade set in the country of Laissez Faire where the rule is to do what is easiest. Thus, no children, no buildings, few crops, little production. The rest of the book is made up of short essays and stories that make the same point without using the utopian form. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in American Utopias: Selected Short Fiction. Ed. Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. All items separately paged. |
| Illustration | With 12 Illustrations of Henry L Stephens |
| Holding Institutions | MoU-St, PSt |
| Full Text | 1872 Elder, Cyrus. “Dream of a Free-Trade Paradise. A Laissez Faire Tale.” In his Dream of a Free Trade Paradise, and Other Sketches. With 12 Illustrations of Henry L Stephens (Philadelphia, PA: Pub. for the Industrial League by Henry Carey Baird, Industrial Publisher, 1872), 11-20. Rpt. in American Utopias: Selected Short Fiction. Ed. Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. All items separately paged. MoU-St, PSt Satire on free trade set in the country of Laissez Faire where the rule is to do what is easiest. Thus, no children, no buildings, few crops, little production. The rest of the book is made up of short essays and stories that make the same point without using the utopian form. |
