Utopias & Dystopias: Blueprints for heaven and hell on earth

The literature of the ideal (and the nightmare) society — More’s Utopia, Bellamy’s future, Wells’s warnings, and the imagined worlds that critique our own.

In this collection

• A Race for a Wife
• Women and Politics
• Young Swaigder or the Force of Runes
• A Russian Night
• Peter's Goat
• Sunshine, and her Brothers and Sisters
• The Melancholy Left
• Seeing
• Pinocchio Goes to See a Puppet Show
• In the Roar of the Sea
• Dining Out
• Robur the Conqueror
• Ilyás
• Good Government
• Lizzie and the Baby
• Black Heart and White Heart
• Poor unlucky poets: whom both life and death
• Aunt Kipp
• Think Before You Speak; Or, The Three Wishes
• Black Ram
• The Poor Man and the Rich Man
• Coals of Fire
• Highly Deliberate Poem
• A Question (the Forerunner)
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