Utopia
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- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
2 March 2020
Summary
Utopia: A Vision of the Ideal Society
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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 traveller, Raphael, describes the island to More, a bitter contrast is drawn between this rational society…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241382684 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241382688 |
| Series: | Penguin Pocket Hardbacks |
| Author: | Thomas More, Dominic Baker-Smith |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 2 March 2020 |
| Weight: | 249g |
| Dimensions: | 175mm x 112mm x 24mm |
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About The Author
Thomas More
Thomas More
Thomas More was born a Londoner in 1477 or 1478. He served as a page, then studied at Oxford, was called to the bar and subsequently had a highly successful career in the City. Sent on an embassy to Flanders in 1515, he began Utopia there and completed it back in London. From 1528 he actively resisted innovation in religious matters and clashed with Henry VIII over his break with the Church. In July 1535, after he refused to accept royal supremacy over the church, he was tried as a traitor at Westminster Hall and beheaded on Tower Hill. He was canonized by Pope Pius XI in 1935.
Dominic Baker-Smith
Dominic Baker-Smith OBE was a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, Professor of English at University College, Cardiff, and Emeritus Professor at the University of Amsterdam. His books included More’s ‘Utopia’ (2000) and he edited three volumes in the University of Toronto Press’ Collected Works of Erasmus.
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