Utopia by Sir Thomas More

Utopia, colored, Titelholzschnitt from Thomas Moore's Utopia, public domain

Summary: 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 for Librivox)

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Total running time:  3 hours, 54 minutes

Utopia, map by Abraham Ortellius, possibly published in 1595, public domain

# 00 – Introduction

# 01 – Discourses of Raphael Hythloday, Part 1

# 02 – Discourses of Raphael Hythloday, Part 2

# 03 – Discourses of Raphael Hythloday, Part 3

# 04 – Of Their Towns, Particularly of Amaurot

# 05 – Of Their Magistrates

# 06 – Of Their Trades, and Manner of Life

# 07 – Of Their Traffic

# 08 – Of the Travelling of the Utopians

# 09 – Of Their Slaves and of Their Marriages

# 10 – Of Their Military Discipline

# 11 – Of the Religions of the Utopians

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