Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Modern Times
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xii, 506pp. Laminated printed light card covers. Very light chipping to edges. Minor soiling to edges. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 8vo. Professor Kumar's outstanding work mainly concerns the latest phase of Utopia's history; the period since the 1880s. It considers the utopias and anti-utopias of Edward Bellamy, H. G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell and B F Skinner. The final part of the book considers the fate of utopia in the second half of the twentieth century.