A story reminiscent of the middle west of Howells's boyhood. The chronicle - he does not call his story a novel - is concerned with Owen Powell, a visionary dreamer who, after business failure in the city, takes his family to the backwoods thinking to found there a communistic community after the order of Robert Owen. Yellowing pages fill this 1912 copy. Binding is tight with some markings inside the front cover.#vintage#mill