Utopia (Burnet translation) by Thomas More (1478 - 1535)

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.

Utopia (Burnet translation) by Thomas More (1478 - 1535)

All episodes

Of Their Slaves, and Of Their Marriages

Of the Travelling of the Utopians

Of Their Trades, and Manner of Life

Of Their Traffic

Discourses (pt 2)

Discourses of Raphael Hythloday, of the Best State of a Commonwealth

Of Their Military Discipline

Of Their Magistrates

Of Their Towns, Particularly of Amaurot

Discourses (pt 3)