The Trouble of Living Alone
Title | The Trouble of Living Alone |
Year for Search | 1894 |
Authors | Hofman, F[rederick] B. |
Tertiary Authors | Hofman, F. B. |
Date Published | 1894 |
Publisher | Arena Publishing Co |
Place Published | Boston, MA |
Keywords | Male author, US author |
Annotation | Lost race eutopia. The novel begins with the hero spending five years in a Robinson Crusoe situation before being discovered by a community of fifty English-speaking people who are the descendants of three couples who had survived another shipwreck. They live a simple, Christian life that combines individuality (separate homes and gardens) and community of goods administered by people who have been popularly elected. They then visit another eutopia with a simple government, with all government business conducted in public, and modest and moral people. This system ultimately becomes world-wide assisted by means of rapid communication. |
Holding Institutions | W3,2693 |
Full Text | 1894 Hofman, F[rederick] B. The Trouble of Living Alone. Lost race eutopia. The novel begins with the hero spending five years in a Robinson Crusoe situation before being discovered by a community of fifty English-speaking people who are the descendants of three couples who had survived another shipwreck. They live a simple, Christian life that combines individuality (separate homes and gardens) and community of goods administered by people who have been popularly elected. They then visit another eutopia with a simple government, with all government business conducted in public, and modest and moral people. This system ultimately becomes world-wide assisted by means of rapid communication. |