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“’The New Utopia‘ gives the ridiculous side of present patent ideas for human progress.” —The Brooklyn Eagle

“An exceedingly interesting short story.” —The Coleshill Chronicle

“A mordant little satire on egalitarianism anticipating Vonnegut’s ‘Harrison Bergeron’ and many similar works.” —Interzone

“’The New Utopia‘ is a humorous parody making fun of the utopian dreams celebrated by Edward Bellamy in Looking Backwards and William Morris in News from Nowhere.” —Dictionary of Literary Utopias

“A sharp departure from his own tradition, it is difficult to see the inducement unless one accepts the hypothesis that Mr. Jerome is like the comedian burning to play tragedy.” —Boston Post

“Written in a sketchy, breezy way which is very interesting.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“’The New Utopia‘ is Jerome K. Jerome’s answer to Edward Bellamy.” —The Review of Reviews

“A quaint mixture of humor and cynicism directed chiefly against certain errors which the present condition of society tends rather to foster than to check.” —The Morning Post

“If we don’t watch our step we’ll be in Jerome’s ‘Utopia.’” —The Emporia Weekly Gazette

“’The New Utopia‘ prefigured many of the common motifs of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century utopian and dystopian fiction.” —Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism

The New Utopia