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In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation where thousands live in peace and harmony, men and women are both educated, and all property is communal. Through dialogue and correspondence between the protagonist Raphael Hythloday and his friends... Read More about Utopia

Part of the Hero Classics series Utopia is a distant island where the inhabitants are thriving and justice and reason prevail, in contrast to the realities of sixteenth-century Europe, where greed, superstition and unenlightened tradition reign. Using the framework of a traveler’s account to a fict... Read More about Utopia (Hero Classics)

First published in Latin in 1516, Utopia was the work of Sir Thomas More (1477-1535), the brilliant humanist, scholar, and churchman executed by Henry VIII for his refusal to accept the king as the supreme head of the Church of England. In this work, which gave its name to the whole genre of books a... Read More about Utopia (Dover Thrift Editions: Philosophy)

Utopia is a social and political satire, in the form of a traveler's tale in an apparently blissful society based upon natural reason and justice. Sir Thomas More explores the role of philosophy--and unrealistic idealism--in government and offers a scathing analysis of the politics and society of hi... Read More about Utopia

Utopia is a social and political satire, in the form of a traveler's tale in an apparently blissful society based upon natural reason and justice. Sir Thomas More explores the role of philosophy--and unrealistic idealism--in government and offers a scathing analysis of the politics and society of hi... Read More about Utopia

Five-hundred-year anniversary edition of More’s Utopia, with writing from major science fiction writersFive hundred years since its first publication, Thomas More’s Utopia remains astonishingly radical and provocative. More imagines an island nation where thousands live in peace and harmony, men and... Read More about Utopia