Utopia (Classics) - Softcover

Turner, Paul; More, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140441654 ISBN 13: 9780140441659

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1973

Synopsis

Sir Thomas More's entertaining description of Utopia, an island supporting a perfectly organized and happy people, was a best-seller when it first appeared in Latin in 1516. This work of a Catholic martyr has later been seen as the source of Ana-baptism, Mormonism, and even communism. Utopia revolutionized Plato's classical blueprint of the perfect republic, mainly by its realism. Locating his island in the (then) New World, More endowed it with a language and poetry, and detailed the length of the working day and even the divorce laws. Such precision gives a disturbing and exciting impact to Utopia, which still remains a book of the future.

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Review:

We can t do without this book. We are all and have always been Thomas More s children.
China Mieville
I am offered the Grand Inquisitor s choice. Will you choose freedom without happiness, or happiness without freedom? The only answer one can make, I think, is: No.
Ursula K. Le Guin"

Book Description:

Thomas More's Utopia is one of the supreme achievements of Renaissance humanism. His complex and ironic account of an imaginary communist society has not only given rise to the genre of utopian fiction but has been an inspiration to generations of political reformers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0140441654
• ISBN 13: 9780140441659
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 160