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Title: Moving the Mountain
Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Narrator: Alice Johnson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-03-17
Publisher: Audioliterature
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Classics, World Literature
Publisher's Summary:
An iconic early feminist utopian novel. This work was one element in the major wave of utopian and dystopian literature that marked the later nineteenth and early twentieth century. A man previously lost to the world is found by his sister and tries to re-enter society. He had amnesia so he is now 55 in body, but 25 in his own mind. The book delves into how the man accommodates to the progress in industry and society; but most of all - and most importantly - it is a fascinating study of how he reacts to and deals with the significant changes and progress regarding the position of women in the society.
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Members Reviews:
Interesting, but not my style
Started this as part of a challenge to read more diverse books outside of my usual go to genres. In school, I enjoyed Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" and thought I would read some of her other works.
It was fascinating to read what Perkins Gilman imagined for the future of the world, especially with envisioning the "women waking up". But, even as I read the story, some of the changes had a hidden ugliness. Perkins Gilman does not go into full details on the ugly side of the new approach to life, but does just enough so the reader knows it is being glossed over.
Not sure I'll continue the triology.
brilliant ideas
This is the first of a series, of which I have the other 2. some themes repeated, but the detail that is different makes it ok. Ms Perkins has one of the most common sense yet ingenious views of how the world can be so much better, nothing new required. We have it in our power to live in a much nicer place. Everybody. But it seems that the powers that control the world are determined NOT to make/let that happen, because they would have to give up their power and ego-tripping ways
A nightmare for anyone who expects a book to have been edited.
a very badly republished edition. So many editing errors that I could hardly bear to read it.
so I'm rating the perfect looking cover and unwrinkled pages that are fresh and ...
I bought the book for someone else, so I'm rating the perfect looking cover and unwrinkled pages that are fresh and crisp and smell the way a new book should.
Not a bad world, if it'll have you
Moving the Mountain, published in 1911, is a utopian novel by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The story opens in the remote reaches of Tibet, where American Ellen Robertson is miraculously reunited with her long-lost brother John, who ventured into Tibet 30 years ago and was never heard from again. Once rediscovered, John suffers some ill-defined sort of amnesia in regards to his Tibetan years, and returns to Western Civilization as a sort of awakened Rip Van Winkle. During the last three decades, the world has changed dramatically, and his sister gradually introduces John to the revolutionary progress that has taken place in American society.
Moving the Mountain is the first book in a utopian trilogy, followed by Herland and With Her in Ourland. It is often described as a feminist utopia, but feminism is really only a small part of this book, which addresses many different aspects of society. Itâs true that the first thing John notices about this changed world are its ânew women,â who have careers and are no longer dependent on men to survive. The economy is socialistic. Everyone works, but only four hours or less per day.
