Presents Edward Bellamy's novel about a Boston aristocrat who falls asleep in 1887 and awakes in the year 2000, finding himself in a socialist utopia; and includes an introduction, explanatory notes, a bibliography, and a Bellamy chronology.
Contains essays in which the authors discuss the appearance of dystopian societies in the science fiction writings and films of Anglo-American cultures in the late twentieth century.
A faithful translation of Jules Verne's 1874 novel in which a group of men stranded on a Pacific island during the American Civil War are helped by mysterious forces to not only survive but also build a utopian civilization. Includes notes, appendices, a scholarly introduction, and illustrations from the original French edition.
Presents three utopian works of literature from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: Thomas More's satirical piece that originated the concept of utopia; Francis Bacon's fictional "New Atlantis"; and Henry Neville's fable "The Isle of Pines.".
