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    The New Utopia
    The New Utopia
    The New Utopia
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    The New Utopia

    By Jerome K. Jerome

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    Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859–1927) was an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889).

    The New Utopia is a short story in which the author describes his dream about a socialist society. Jerome’s short essay describes a regimented future city, indeed world, of nightmarish egalitarianism, where men and women are barely distinguishable in their grey uniforms and all have short black hair, natural or dyed.

    Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men on the Bummel, a sequel to Three Men in a Boat; and several other novels.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBertaBooks
    Release dateJul 4, 2017
    ISBN9788826478029
    The New Utopia
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    Jerome K. Jerome

    Jerome Klapka Jerome was born in 1859 and was brought up in London. He started work as a railway clerk at fourteen, and later was employed as a schoolmaster, actor and journalist. He published two volumes of comic essays and in 1889 Three Men in a Boat. This was an instant success. His new-found wealth enabled him to become one of the founders of The Idler, a humorous magazine which published pieces by W W Jacobs, Bret Harte, Mark Twain and others. In 1900 he wrote a sequel, Three Men on the Bummel, which follows the adventures of the three protagonists on a walking tour through Germany. Jerome married in 1888 and had a daughter. He served as an ambulance driver on the Western Front during the First World War and died in 1927.

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      Love Jerome! And this is probably the first dystopian story of its kind ever. Impressive.
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      It’s alight but it’s not ok it’s good ig if you like it.

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    The New Utopia - Jerome K. Jerome

    The New Utopia

    JEROME K. JEROME

    Copyright © 2017 Jerome K. Jerome

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    THE NEW UTOPIA

    I had spent an extremely interesting evening. I had dined with some very advanced friends of mine at the National Socialist Club. We had had an excellent dinner: the pheasant, stuffed with truffles, was a poem; and when I say that the '49 Chateau Lafitte was worth the price we had to pay for it, I do not see what more I can add in its favour.

    After dinner, and over the cigars (I must say they do know how to stock good cigars at the National Socialist Club), we had a very instructive discussion about the coming equality of man and the nationalisation of capital.

    I was not able to take much part in the argument myself, be- cause, having been left when a boy in a position which rendered it necessary for me to earn my own living, I have never enjoyed the time and opportunity to study these questions.

    But I listened very attentively while my friends explained how, for the thousands of centuries during which it had existed before they came, the world had been going on all wrong, and how, in the course of the next few years or so, they meant to put it right.

    Equality of all mankind was their watchword--perfect equality in all things--equality in possessions, and equality in position

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