Moving the Mountain

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. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a notable American feminist. While she was most famous for her writings, both fiction and non-fiction, on feminism and social reform, she was also a poet, artist, magazine editor, lecturer, and social reformer. She was a great influence on modern feminism because of her view on utopian feminism and unorthodox lifestyle views. Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.