# Men Like Gods

An audiobook by H. G. Wells, read by LibriVox volunteers (8 h 35 min, English).

In the summer of 1921, a disenchanted journalist escapes the rat race for a drive in the country. But Mr. Barnstaple's trip exceeds his expectations when he and other motorists are swept 3,000 years into the future. The inadvertent time travelers arrive in a world that corresponds exactly to Barnstaple's ideals: a utopian state, free of crime, poverty, war, disease, and bigotry. Unfettered by the constraints of government and organized religion, the citizens lead rich, meaningful lives, passed in pursuit of their creative fancies. Barnstaple's traveling companions, however, quickly contrive a scheme to remake the utopia in the image of their twentieth-century world. - Summary that was published with the book originally

[Listen](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/14078)

## Chapters

1. Book 1 Chapter 1 Mr Barnstaple Takes a Holiday (21:15): https://archive.org/download/menlikegods_2006_librivox/menlikegods_01_wells_64kb.mp3
2. Book 1 Chapter 2 The Wonderful Road (12:09): https://archive.org/download/menlikegods_2006_librivox/menlikegods_02_wells_64kb.mp3
3. Book 1 Chapter 3 The Beautiful People (24:37): https://archive.org/download/menlikegods_2006_librivox/menlikegods_03_wells_64kb.mp3
4. Book 1 Chapter 4 The Shadow of Einstein Falls Across the Story and Passes Lightly by It (18:55): https://archive.org/download/menlikegods_2006_librivox/menlikegods_04_wells_64kb.mp3
5. Book 1 Chapter 5 The Governance and History of Utopia (47:23): https://archive.org/download/menlikegods_2006_librivox/menlikegods_05_wells_64kb.mp3
6. Book 1 Chapter 6 Some Earthly Criticisms (58:48): https://archive.org/download/menlikegods_2006_librivox/menlikegods_06_wells_64kb.mp3
7. Book 1 Chapter 7 The Bringing in of Lord Barronga's Party (34:45): https://archive.org/download/menlikegods_2006_librivox/menlikegods_07_wells_64kb.mp3
8. Book 1 Chapter 8 Early Morning in Utopia (39:41): https://archive.org/download/menlikegods_2006_librivox/menlikegods_08_wells_64kb.mp3
9. Book 2 Chapter 1 The Epidemic (19:57): https://archive.org/download/menlikegods_2006_librivox/menlikegods_09_wells_64kb.mp3
10. Book 2 Chapter 2 The Castle on the Crag (41:13): https://archive.org/download/menlikegods_2006_librivox/menlikegods_10_wells_64kb.mp3
11. Book 2 Chapter 3 Mr Barnstaple as a Traitor to Mankind (51:27): https://archive.org/download/menlikegods_2006_librivox/menlikegods_11_wells_64kb.mp3
12. Book 2 Chapter 4 The End of the Quarantine Crag (19:48): https://archive.org/download/menlikegods_2006_librivox/menlikegods_12_wells_64kb.mp3
13. Book 3 Chapter 1 The Peaceful Hills Behind the River (18:02): https://archive.org/download/menlikegods_2006_librivox/menlikegods_13_wells_64kb.mp3
14. Book 3 Chapter 2 The Loiter in a Living World (49:31): https://archive.org/download/menlikegods_2006_librivox/menlikegods_14_wells_64kb.mp3
15. Book 3 Chapter 3 The Service of the Earthling (20:43): https://archive.org/download/menlikegods_2006_librivox/menlikegods_15_wells_64kb.mp3
16. Book 3 Chapter 4 The Return of the Earthling (37:11): https://archive.org/download/menlikegods_2006_librivox/menlikegods_16_wells_64kb.mp3