Utopia (Burnet translation) by Thomas More (1478 - 1535)

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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.

Episode Date
Of the Religions of the Utopians
Jan 01, 1970
Of Their Military Discipline
Jan 01, 1970
Of Their Slaves, and Of Their Marriages
Jan 01, 1970
Of the Travelling of the Utopians
Jan 01, 1970
Of Their Traffic
Jan 01, 1970
Of Their Trades, and Manner of Life
Jan 01, 1970
Of Their Magistrates
Jan 01, 1970
Of Their Towns, Particularly of Amaurot
Jan 01, 1970
Discourses (pt 3)
Jan 01, 1970
Discourses (pt 2)
Jan 01, 1970
Discourses of Raphael Hythloday, of the Best State of a Commonwealth
Jan 01, 1970
Introduction
Jan 01, 1970