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Utopia
The Floating Press 1901; US$ 3.95Sir Thomas More wrote Utopia in 1516 in Latin. His Utopia is a fictional island, whose society, religion and politics he explores. Critics do not believe that the island depicted More's idea of the perfect society, but rather that he hoped to throw the politics of his own time into a new light by contrasting them with his imagined island society.... more...
Utopia
MobileReference.com 2010; US$ 3.99De Optimo Republicae Statu deque Nova Insula Utopia (translated On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia) or more simply Utopia is a 1516 book by Sir (Saint) Thomas More.In 1516 More wrote his most famous and controversial work, Utopia, a novel wherein a traveller, Raphael Hythloday (in Greek, his name and surname allude to archangel... more...
Utopia
ReadHowYouWant 2009; US$ 3.99Utopia, (1516) by Sir Thomas More, is one of the most important works of the European Humanism. The work is an attempt to outline an imaginary ideal society depicting its religious, social and political customs. The relation between the State and the individual are discussed in the work. The work is also seen as satire as it compares the state of Britain... more...
Utopia
Penguin Books Ltd 2012; Not Available'Even if you can't eradicate harmful ideas or remedy established evils, that's no reason to turn your back on the body politic' In Utopia, Thomas More gives us a traveller's account of a newly-discovered island where the inhabitants enjoy a social order based on natural reason and justice, and human fulfilment is open to all. As the... more...
The History of King Richard the Third
Indiana University Press 2005; US$ 14.35The History of King Richard the Third is Thomas More's English masterpiece. With the help of Shakespeare, whose Richard the Third took More's work as its principal model, the History determined the historical reputation of an English king and spawned a seemingly endless controversy about the justness... more...
Utopia
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2009; US$ 8.95Woottons translation brings out the liveliness of Mores work and offers an accurate and reliable version of a masterpiece of social theory. His edition is further distinguished by the inclusion of a translation of Erasmuss The Sileni of Alcibiades, a work very close in sentiment to Utopia, and one immensely influential... more...
Utopia
Penguin Books Ltd 2003; Not AvailableIn Utopia, More paints a vision of the customs and practices of a distant island, but Utopia means 'no place' and his narrator's name, Hythlodaeus, translates as 'dispenser of nonsense'. This fantastical tale masks what is a serious and subversive analysis of the failings of More's society. Advocating instead a world in which there is religious tolerance,... more...
Three Early Modern Utopias
Oxford University Press, UK 1999; US$ 8.99A unique edition of three early modern utopian texts, using a contemporary translation of More's Utopia and examining the Renaissance world view as shown by these writers. The edition includes the illustrative material that accompanied early editions of Utopia, full chronologies of the authors, notes, and glossary. - ;Thomas More: Utopia/ Francis... more...
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