English· 3:53:48· 12 chapters
This book is all about the fictional country called Utopia. It is a country with an ‘ideal’ form of communism, in which everything really does belong to everybody, everyone does the work they want to, and everyone is alright with that. This country uses gold for chamber pots and prison chains, pearls and diamonds for children’s playthings, and requires that a man and a woman see each other exactly as they are, naked, before getting married. This book gave the word 'utopia' the meaning of a perfect society, while the Greek word actually means ‘no place’. Enjoy listening to this story about a country that really is too good to be true. (Summary by Jenilee.)
This is the 17th century translation by Gilbert Burnet, edited in the 19th century by Henry Morley.
This is the 17th century translation by Gilbert Burnet, edited in the 19th century by Henry Morley.
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Introduction
08:25 - Chapter 2
Discourses of Raphael Hythloday, of the Best State of a Commonwealth
26:54 - Chapter 3
Discourses (pt 2)
28:13 - Chapter 4
Discourses (pt 3)
19:45 - Chapter 5
Of Their Towns, Particularly of Amaurot
05:27 - Chapter 6
Of Their Magistrates
03:10 - Chapter 7
Of Their Trades, and Manner of Life
10:10 - Chapter 8
Of Their Traffic
11:29 - Chapter 9
Of the Travelling of the Utopians
43:05 - Chapter 10
Of Their Slaves, and Of Their Marriages
19:26 - Chapter 11
Of Their Military Discipline
20:01 - Chapter 12
Of the Religions of the Utopians
37:43