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Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World

Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World

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Number of Chapters: 25

Length: 05 hours and 13 minutes

Language: English

Aristopia (published 1895) is truly an alternative history. It is an imagination of how the continent of North America might have developed if one man with the vision, altruism and determination to build a state for the benefit of all its people had been in the happy position of having wealth enough to make his dream a reality.

It is an interesting book which deserves its place in literary history largely for being the first novel-length example of its genre. It is written, not as a novel, but as unvarnished history. Only a few passages seem really to catch alight with the idealistic passion of the country's founder, Ralph Morton. Those that do, however, are powerful.

Borrowing heavily from actual documents of the period such as Captain John Smith's Journal, and also from More's Utopia, Newton appears to use his book to show how the vast natural resources of the new continent could, with the vision and wealth of a man like Morton, have improved the lives of huge numbers of the poor, disenfranchised and disaffected of Europe, instead of making relatively few men very rich indeed. In keeping with the thinking of his own time, he seems not to have considered to any great extent how this would still have displaced the native inhabitants of Morton's new 'Commonwealth'. (Summary by Ruth Golding)

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Introduction (Ruth Golding)
Chapter I (Ruth Golding)
Chapter II (Ruth Golding)
Chapter III (Ruth Golding)
Chapter IV (Ruth Golding)
Chapter V (Ruth Golding)
Chapter VI (Ruth Golding)
Chapter VII (Ruth Golding)
Chapter VIII (Ruth Golding)
Chapter IX (Ruth Golding)
Chapter X (Ruth Golding)
Chapter XI (Ruth Golding)
Chapter XII (Ruth Golding)
Chapter XIII (Ruth Golding)
Chapter XIV (Ruth Golding)
Chapter XV (Ruth Golding)
Chapter XVI (Ruth Golding)
Chapter XVII (Ruth Golding)
Chapter XVIII (Ruth Golding)
Chapter XIX (Ruth Golding)
Chapter XX (Ruth Golding)
Chapter XXI (Ruth Golding)
Chapter XXII (Ruth Golding)
Chapter XXIII (Ruth Golding)
Chapter XXIV and Conclusion (Ruth Golding)
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