Part of the Hero Classics series.Utopia is a distant island where the inhabitants are thriving and justice and reason prevail, in contrast to the realities of sixteenth-century Europe, where greed, superstition and unenlightened tradition reign. Using the framework of a traveller's account to a fictional land, Thomas More created an ingenious treatise which envisioned a more humanist approach to laws and social structures, and coined the now common term "utopia".The Hero Classics series: Meditations, The Prophet, A Room of One's Own, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, The Art of War, The Life of Charlotte Bronte, The Republic, The Prince ,Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Utopia.