The Mysterious Stranger
| Title | The Mysterious Stranger |
| Year for Search | 1958 |
| Authors | Gundran, Olive |
| Pagination | 56 pp. |
| Date Published | 1958 |
| Publisher | A Milestone Book/Comet Press Books |
| Place Published | New York |
| Keywords | Female author |
| Annotation | The female protagonist falls in love with a visiting man from Mars and is taken there with the intent that she will learn their secret of creating a worldwide eutopia and then return to Earth to teach it there. While secret is not revealed in the book, she learns to fly on wings she is taught to make. Martians are beautiful, never sick or in pain. Supposedly there has never been strife, but later she flies over an island where people are isolated, without wings, of can’t get along with others. No money. No classes. The laws are the Ten Commandments. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | Female author |
| Full Text | 1958 Gundran, Olive. The Mysterious Stranger. New York: A Milestone Book/Comet Press Books. 56 pp. PSt The female protagonist falls in love with a visiting man from Mars and is taken there with the intent that she will learn their secret of creating a worldwide eutopia and then return to Earth to teach it there. While secret is not revealed in the book, she learns to fly on wings she is taught to make. Martians are beautiful, never sick or in pain. Supposedly there has never been strife, but later she flies over an island where people are isolated, without wings, of can’t get along with others. No money. No classes. The laws are the Ten Commandments. Female author. |
