LibriVox recording of Utopia, by Thomas More. Read by Jenilee.

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.)

M4B audiobook of complete book

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Artist/Composer: Sir Thomas More
Date: 2007-05-25
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: LibriVox; literature; audiobook; more; society; philosophy


Creative Commons license: Public Domain

 1  00 - Introduction                              8:25
 2  01 - Discourses of Raphael Hythloday, Part 1  26:54
 3  02 - Discourses of Raphael Hythloday, Part 2  28:13
 4  03 - Discourses of Raphael Hythloday, Part 3  19:45
 5  04 - Of Their Towns, Particularly of Amaurot   5:27
 6  05 - Of Their Magistrates                      3:10
 7  06 - Of Their Trades, and Manner of Life      10:10
 8  07 - Of Their Traffic                         11:29
 9  08 - Of the Travelling of the Utopians        43:05
10  09 - Of Their Slaves and of Their Marriages   19:26
11  10 - Of Their Military Discipline             20:01
12  11 - Of the Religions of the Utopians         37:43