Bernard Alexander Canter 2 hr 40 min read

A series of strange events unfolds a vision of a new utopia, its abstract truths sure to be resisted by all who can grasp only the concrete, a vegetarian's dream of a better world.

Bernard Canter's 1922 Dutch novel is an idealistic utopian fantasy shaped by the author's ethical vegetarianism. Earnest, philosophical, of its era. Read it for a Dutch vision of a reformed and gentler future, dedicated to the man who converted its author.

In its time

Published in 1922, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

2 hr 40 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).