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  • By: H. G. Wells
  • Narrated by: Bryan Godwin
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A Modern Utopia is a 1905 novel by H. G. Wells. Because of the complexity and sophistication of its narrative structure, A Modern Utopia has been called "not so much a modern as a postmodern utopia." The novel is best known for its notion that a voluntary order of nobility known as the Samurai could effectively rule a "kinetic and not static" world state so as to solve "the problem of combining progress with political stability".
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Not even one for the purists

Wells at his most onanistic, read by a narrator who doesn’t know how to pronounce many of the most common words in the English language.

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