A journey into the utopian worlds of great thinkers. Utopias fascinate and inspire hopes for a better world. Whether completely fantastical or closely aligned with reality, one question drives all utopians: What does the better society look like? Like Thomas More's Utopia, Tommaso Campanella's City of the Sun, or Francis Bacon's New Atlantis? Alberto Manguel recounts Charles Fourier's ideas on free love, Jean-Baptiste André Godin, who actually realized his utopia of communal living, working, and sharing, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, who founded their borderless state of Nutopia, and Austin Tappan Wright, who created a world with Islandia where people give more importance to nature and lead a slower, happier life.