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Total pages original book: 176
Includes a PDF summary of 17 pages
Duration of the summary (audio): 12M54S (3.4 MB)
Description or summary of the audiobook: In 'Utopia', More paints a vision of the customs and practices of a distant island, but Utopia means 'no place' and his narrator's name, Hythlodaeus, translates as 'dispenser of nonsense'. This fantastical tale masks what is a serious and subversive analysis of the failings of More's society. Advocating instead a world in which there is religious tolerance, provision for the aged, and state ownership of land, 'Utopia' has been variously claimed as a Catholic tract or an argument for communism and it still invites each generation to make its own interpretation.
Other categories, genre or collection: Contemporary Fiction, Classic Books & Novels, Marxism & Communism, Political Science & Theory, Prose: Non-fiction, Literary Essays