Project Gutenberg 2024-03-19 Public domain in the USA. 105 Ouida 1839 1908 De La Rame, Louisa De la Ramée, Louise De la Ramée, Louisa Uida Ramé, Marie Louise Ramée, Maria Louise De la Ramee, Louise Ramé, Louisa de la An altruist $aLondon :$bT. Fisher Unwin, $c1897. Tim Lindell, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "An Altruist" by Ouida is a novel written in the late 19th century. The story revolves around Wilfrid Bertram, an ardent idealist who passionately discusses themes of altruism and the evils of wealth in a gathering filled with skeptical socialites. Readers will likely encounter Bertram's struggles as he navigates societal norms while fervently advocating for collective ownership and a more equitable society. The opening of the novel sets the stage in Wilfrid Bertram's cramped Piccadilly rooms, where he is attempting to lecture a crowd from high society on his radical ideas regarding property and altruism. While he holds an earnest desire to enlighten his guests, they display boredom and derision, leading him to feel increasingly isolated in his convictions. Through a series of dialogues with his guests, including cynical observations from Lord Marlow and sympathetic comments from his aunt Lady Southwold, we see Bertram grappling with the disconnect between his ideals and the shallow societal values surrounding him. This conflict intensifies when news of a substantial inheritance disrupts his principles, introducing further moral dilemmas that will likely unfold as the narrative progresses. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/altruist00ouidrich/page/n9/mode/2up 20220307071111ouida 1897 GB Reading ease score: 83.9 (6th grade). Easy to read. en London (England) -- Fiction Rich people -- Fiction Man-woman relationships -- Fiction Laundresses -- Fiction PR Text Category: Novels Category: British Literature 207445 2025-07-29T05:23:26.613293 text/html 182620 2024-03-19T05:48:11 text/html 663528 2025-07-29T05:23:31.963245 application/epub+zip 664295 2025-07-29T05:23:28.135271 application/epub+zip 266549 2025-07-29T05:23:27.280303 application/epub+zip 1407315 2025-07-29T05:23:34.714282 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1142405 2025-07-29T05:23:31.323288 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 176011 2025-07-29T05:23:26.048309 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 156155 2024-03-19T05:48:11 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16899 2025-07-29T05:23:34.892245 application/rdf+xml 15777 2025-07-29T05:23:27.567269 image/jpeg 2183 2025-07-29T05:23:27.454266 image/jpeg 1118971 2025-07-29T05:23:26.661290 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia