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Utopia - Thomas More - P. Classics (2003)
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Utopia - Thomas More - P. Classics (2003)Utopia - Thomas More - P. Classics (2003)

In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation where thousands live in peace and harmony, men and women are both educated, and all property is communal. Through dialogue and correspondence between the protagonist Raphael Hythloday and his friends and contemporaries, More explores the theories behind war, political disagreements, social quarrels, and wealth distribution and imagines the day-to-day lives of those citizens enjoying freedom from fear, oppression, violence, and suffering.
 
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Tags: imagines, Utopia, Thomas, social, quarrels, Classics, disagreements
First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
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First As Tragedy, Then As FarceFirst As Tragedy, Then As Farce

From the tragedy of 9/11 to the farce of the financial meltdown—but underlying both is the irrationality of global capitalism. In this bravura analysis of the current global crisis—following on from his bestselling Welcome to the Desert of the Real—Slavoj Zizek argues that the liberal idea of the “end of history,” declared by Francis Fukuyama during the 1990s, has had to die twice. After the collapse of the liberal-democratic political utopia, on the morning of 9/11, came the collapse of the economic utopia of global market capitalism at the end of 2008. ..

 
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Tags: First, Farce, Tragedy, Zizek, Slavoj, global, collapse, utopia, capitalism
After Utopia
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After UtopiaAfter Utopia

By developing the concept of critical space, After Utopia presents a new genealogy of twentieth-century American fiction. Nicholas Spencer argues that the radical American fiction of Jack London, Upton Sinclair, John Dos Passos, and Josephine Herbst reimagines the spatial concerns of late nineteenth-century utopian American texts. Instead of fully imagined utopian societies, such fiction depicts localized utopian spaces that provide essential support for the models of history on which these authors focus. 

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Tags: fiction, American, utopian, critical, space, After, Utopia
Utopia
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UtopiaUtopia

It takes a lot of chutzpah to give your novel the same title as one of the most famous novels in the history of English-language literature, even if the original novel didn't spawn a literary field or two (utopian and dystopian fiction) or become an everyday term for the perfect place to live on Earth. Yet there's a postmodern appropriateness to applying the title Utopia to a novel set in a theme park that uses cutting-edge technology to create Earth's most desirable fantasy place to visit. Like Westworld and Jurassic Park, Lincoln Child's Utopia is a near-future theme-park thriller, and like Michael Crichton, Child delivers an abundance of white-knuckle thrills, chills, and shocks.


 
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Tags: novel, Utopia, Child, Earth, title, place
1984 - Penguin Graded Readers - Level 4
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1984 - Penguin Graded Readers - Level 4Level 4 - Penguin Graded Readers
Classic / British English
Winston Smith lives in a society where the government controls people's lives every second of the day. Alone in his small, one-room apartment, Winston dreams of a better life. Is freedom from this life of suffering possible? There must be something that the Party cannot control something like love, perhaps?

Audio added Thanks to malacitanus!

 
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Tags: 1984, utopia, graded, reader, orwell, Level 4, Winston, something, Level, lives, Graded, Penguin, Readers