Utopia (Burnet translation)

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - Medieval, Published before 1800

Authors: Thomas More In Year : 1516

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Utopia (Burnet translation)

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

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.