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Ideal societies and utopias

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Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887Edward Bellamy · 1888A utopian novel published in 1888, told as the narration of Julian West, a wealthy young Bostonian born in 1857 who finds himself living in the year 2000 and explains the transformed social order through comparisons with nineteenth-century society.ENES中文हिन्दीالعربية
New AtlantisFrancis Bacon · 1627A utopian fiction published posthumously in 1627, this unfinished work by Francis Bacon follows sailors who, after being blown off course in the South Sea, discover Bensalem, an ideal Christian commonwealth centered on a scientific research institution called Solomon's House.ENES中文हिन्दीالعربية