World Classics PDF EPUB Audio

Utopia

by Thomas More

Pages: 108

Read online EPUB Download Save

Listen to Utopia Audiobook Free

Read by Jenilee · 3 h 53 min · 12 parts

Open the player

Introduction
8:25
Discourses of Raphael Hythloday, of the Best State of a Commonwealth
26:54
Discourses (pt 2)
28:13
Discourses (pt 3)
19:45
Of Their Towns, Particularly of Amaurot
5:27
Of Their Magistrates
3:10
Of Their Trades, and Manner of Life
10:10
Of Their Traffic
11:29
Of the Travelling of the Utopians
43:05
Of Their Slaves, and Of Their Marriages
19:26
Of Their Military Discipline
20:01
Of the Religions of the Utopians
37:43

Utopia (1516) is a public domain work.

The audio edition streams in the page. There is no audio file to download.

Browse all free audiobooks

About this book

A traveler describes a distant island commonwealth called Utopia, where property is held in common, gold is despised, work is shared, and religious tolerance prevails—an imagined ideal society that throws the injustices of More's own England into sharp relief. Witty, ambiguous, and endlessly debated, the book coined the very word 'utopia' (meaning both 'good place' and 'no place') and launched a whole genre of imagined perfect societies. Is it a serious blueprint, a satire, or a thought experiment? Readers have argued for five centuries. Brilliant and provocative, Utopia remains a foundational work of political philosophy and a mirror in which every age examines its own dreams and failings.

Show all 9 chapters

About the author

Thomas More

Utopia appeared in Latin in 1516 and handed the language a word its author may have meant as a joke, since the name means no-place, and readers have never settled how much of the island's common property and six-hour working day More actually endorsed.

Open the author page