Utopia
$16.50
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
25 October 2009
Summary
‘Nations will be happy, when either philosophers become kings, or kings become philosophers.’
In Utopia, Thomas More painted a fantastical picture of a distant island where society is perfected and people live in harmony. Yet its title means ‘no place’, and More’s hugely influential work was ultimately an attack on his own corrupt, dangerous times, and on the failings of humanity.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141043692 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141043695 |
| Author: | Thomas More, Paul Turner |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 25 October 2009 |
| Weight: | 100g |
| Dimensions: | 181mm x 112mm x 8mm |
| Series: | Penguin Great Ideas |
About The Author
Thomas More
Thomas More was born in 1478. He succeeded Wolsey as Lord Chancellor of England, but came into conflict with the king, Henry VIII, by refusing to acknowledge him as sole head of the Church. Charged with high treason, More steadfastly refused to take an oath impugning the pope’s authority or upholding the king’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon. He was beheaded in 1535.
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