A utopia is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its citizens. The term was coined by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, describing a fictional island society in the south Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South America. The opposite of a utopia is a dystopia, which dominates the fictional literature. Dystopian fiction (sometimes combined with, but distinct from, apocalyptic fiction) offers the opposite: the portrayal of a setting that completely disagrees with the author's ethos. This book contents: The Republic by Plato Utopia by Thomas More The City of the Sun by Tommaso Campanella The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon Looking Backward: 2000 to 1887 by Edward Bellamy Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift The Iron Heel by Jack London We by Evgeny Zamyatin Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Animal Farm by George Orwell