Publisher's Synopsis
The Complete Herland Trilogy includes Moving the Mountain, Herland, and With Her in Ourland. Moving the Mountain is the utopian novel by the predominant feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman published in 1915. It is among the classic utopian and dystopian novels of the early twentieth century. The plot involves two siblings meeting after 25 years outside Tibet. The protagonist returns to America to discover it has changed into a society unrecognizable from before. It is described as "beyond Socialism," a strain of nationalism. Themes such as "new humanitarianism," eugenics, renewable resources are discussed in restructuring society. Herland is the utopian novel by the predominant feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman published in 1915. It is among the classic utopian and dystopian novels of the early twentieth century. The plot involves three explorers that discover a previously uncharted land filled only with women. The society is free from war, conflict, and inequity. With Her in Ourland is the utopian novel by the predominant feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman published in 1916. It is among the classic utopian and dystopian novels of the early twentieth century. The book starts where Herland ends and continues to follow the protagonists established in Herland as they confront the inequities of our land.
