Charlotte Perkins Gilman 3 hr 21 min read

A man lost in the wilds of Tibet for thirty years returns to find America transformed into a socialist utopia of health, equality, and reason, a world remade in a single generation.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1911 novel is an optimistic feminist utopia of achievable social reform. Earnest, ideas-rich, of its era. Read it for a hopeful vision of a near-future America perfected not by miracle but by will, from the author of 'Herland.'

In its time

Published in 1911, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

3 hr 21 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).