Utopia (Thrift Editions) - Softcover

More, Sir Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486295834 ISBN 13: 9780486295831

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc, 2000

Synopsis

Sixteenth-century classic by brilliant humanist, churchman and scholar envisioned a patriarchal island kingdom that practiced religious tolerance, in which everybody worked, all goods were community-owned, and violence, bloodshed, and vice were nonexistent. Forerunner of many later attempts at establishing "Utopias" both in theory and in practice.

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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: Dover Publications Inc
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0486295834
• ISBN 13: 9780486295831
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96