Theodor Hertzka 3 hr 14 min read

An unabashed 'tract in the worst sense,' this tale aims not just at the reader's mind and heart but at his decisions and his wallet, a guided tour of the free-land utopia.

Theodor Hertzka's 1893 German novel ('A Visit to Freeland') dramatizes his influential economic utopia, in which a model society is built on free access to land and capital. Earnest, persuasive, historically significant. Read it for a founding work of economic utopian fiction that inspired a real-world movement.

In its time

Published in 1893, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

3 hr 14 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).