A Martian visitor and his earthly host compare their two worlds. Where Mars long ago legislated in favour of its labouring class, Earth, he observes, has let wealth hold labour in subjection; from there the conversation moves through religion, property, marriage and government, with the author’s own late-life conclusions behind every reply.
A nineteenth-century American utopian critique in the line of Looking Backward, for readers of reform-era social thought. Download the free EPUB.