Josef von Neupauer 4 hr 39 min read

A social-political novel imagining Austria in the year 2020, transformed by the triumph of socialist economic organization into a new and better order.

Josef von Neupauer's 1893 German novel is an earnest utopian vision of a socialist future state. Detailed, ideas-rich, of its era. Read it for a nineteenth-century Austrian dream of the twenty-first century remade along socialist lines, a fascinating artifact of utopian thought.

In its time

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

Reading it

4 hr 39 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).