The Faber Book of Utopias

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John Carey

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Every age has its utopias, from Plato's Republic to contemporary sci-fi visions. In this spellbinding anthology John Carey charts the course of every conceivable dream world, combining a broad historical sweep with lively variety. The Faber Book of Utopias encompasses some noble and selfless schemes, but the history of utopias is also spine-chilling in the trail of folly and tyranny it uncovers.

Author Biography:

John Carey is Merton Professor of English at Oxford University, a distinguished critic, reviewer and broadcaster, and the author of several books, including studies of Donne, Dickens and Thackeray, and most recently, Pure Pleasure: A Guide to the Twentieth Century's Most Enjoyable Books, described, by James Wood in the London Review of Books, as 'likeable, wise and often right . . . one feels an attractive sense of partisanship in Carey's writing, an alliance with the ordinary, the plain spoken, the unlettered, the sympathetic and the humane. Carey writes with an Orwellian attention to decency'. He is a regular critic on BBC2's Newsnight Review. He is also the editor of the best-selling anthologies The Faber Book of Reportage, The Faber Book of Science and The Faber Book of Utopias.

Release date Australia

September 18th, 2000

Author

John Carey

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributor

Edited by John Carey

Edition

Main

Pages

560

Dimensions

144x230x40

ISBN-13

9780571203178

Product ID

2018320

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