"The Story of Happinolande"
Title | "The Story of Happinolande" |
Year for Search | 1889 |
Authors | Bunce, Oliver(1828-90) |
Secondary Title | The Story of Happinolande and Other Legends |
Pagination | 5-67 |
Date Published | 1889 |
Publisher | D. Appleton |
Place Published | New York |
Keywords | Male author, US author |
Annotation | Anti-egalitarian satire. When a freak of nature provides an abundance of gold and it is distributed equally, no one will work, and a generally good system collapses. When another freak of nature covers the gold, people must work and abundance returns. |
Holding Institutions | PSt, W3,775 |
Author Note | (1828-90) |
Full Text | 1889 Bunce, Oliver Bell (1828-90). “The Story of Happinolande.” In his The Story of Happinolande and Other Legends (New York: D. Appleton, 1889), 5-67. PSt, W3,775 Anti-egalitarian satire. When a freak of nature provides an abundance of gold and it is distributed equally, no one will work, and a generally good system collapses. When another freak of nature covers the gold, people must work and abundance returns. |