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  • Published: 20 April 2005
  • ISBN: 9780141441122
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $26.99
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A Modern Utopia




A compelling blend of philosophical discussion and imaginative narrative

While walking in the Swiss Alps, two English travellers fall into a space-warp, and suddenly find themselves in another world. In many ways the same as our own - even down to the characters that inhabit it - this new planet is still somehow radically different, for the two walkers are now upon a Utopian Earth controlled by a single World Government. Here, as they soon learn, all share a common language, there is sexual, economic and racial equality, and society is ruled by socialist ideals enforced by an austere, voluntary elite: the 'Samurai'. But what will the Utopians make of these new visitors from a less perfect world?

  • Published: 20 April 2005
  • ISBN: 9780141441122
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $26.99
Categories:

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