Can we live better? 7 classic utopias: The Republic, Utopia, The City of The Sun, The New Atlantis, Looking Backwards from 2000 to 1887, News from Nowhere, Erewhon

For thousands of years human beings have dreamt of perfect worlds, worlds free of conflict, hunger and unhappiness. But can these worlds ever exist in reality?

Many thinkers and authors have sought an answer to this question.

Utopia is a perfect paradise that doesn’t exist, but which we all dream of anyway. Author Thomas More actually created the noun in one of his books to describe an imaginary island where all systems—political, social, and legal—are perfect and operate harmoniously.

The collection includes works by Plato, Thomas More, Tommaso Campanella, Francis Bacon, Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Samuel Butler.

Contents:

Plato - The Republic

Thomas More - Utopia

Tommaso Campanella - The City of The Sun

Frances Bacon - The New Atlantis

Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards: from 2000 to 1887

William Morris - News from Nowhere

Samuel Butler - Erewhon