The Most Famous Utopias and Dystopias (illustrated)

A utopia is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its citizens. The term was coined by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, describing a fictional island society in the south Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South America. The opposite of a utopia is a dystopia, which dominates the fictional literature. Dystopian fiction (sometimes combined with, but distinct from, apocalyptic fiction) offers the opposite: the portrayal of a setting that completely disagrees with the author's ethos. This book contents: Plato. The Republic Thomas More. Utopia Tommaso Campanella. The City of the Sun Frances Bacon. The New Atlantis Edward Bellamy. Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 Jack London. The Iron Heel Evgeny Zamiatin. We George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-Four Aldous Leonard Huxley. Brave New World Illustrated by D. Fisher, Marina Maksimchuk.