Five visions of the perfect state are gathered here: Plutarch’s life of Lycurgus, lawgiver of Sparta; Sir Thomas More’s Utopia; Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis, with its house of scientists; Tommaso Campanella’s City of the Sun; and Joseph Hall’s satirical Mundus Alter et Idem, which turns the form upside down with a land of gluttons.
A handy anthology of the founding texts of utopian thought, edited by Henry Morley. Download the free EPUB.