Utopia: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Utopia, credited to Sir Thomas More, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Utopia, by Thomas More. Read by Jenilee. 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.)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Utopia
• Author credits: Sir Thomas More
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 3:53:48

Catalogue topics

• more
• society
• philosophy

Track guide

1. 00 - Introduction — 8:25
2. 01 - Discourses of Raphael Hythloday, Part 1 — 26:55
3. 02 - Discourses of Raphael Hythloday, Part 2 — 28:14
4. 03 - Discourses of Raphael Hythloday, Part 3 — 19:46
5. 04 - Of Their Towns, Particularly of Amaurot — 5:27
6. 05 - Of Their Magistrates — 3:10
7. 06 - Of Their Trades, and Manner of Life — 10:11
8. 07 - Of Their Traffic — 11:29
9. 08 - Of the Travelling of the Utopians — 43:05
10. 09 - Of Their Slaves and of Their Marriages — 19:27
11. 10 - Of Their Military Discipline — 20:01
12. 11 - Of the Religions of the Utopians — 37:44

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