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Utopia
Thomas More
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Description for Utopia
Paperback. Five-hundred-year anniversary edition of More's Utopia, with writing from major science fiction writers Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 282.
Five 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 women are both educated, and property is communal. In a text hovering between fantasy, satire, blueprint and game, More explores the theories and realities behind war, political conflicts, social tensions and redistribution, and imagines the day-to-day lives of a citizenry living free from fear, oppression, violence and suffering. But there has always been a shadow at the heart of Utopia. If this is a depiction of the perfect state, why, as ... Read more
Five 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 women are both educated, and property is communal. In a text hovering between fantasy, satire, blueprint and game, More explores the theories and realities behind war, political conflicts, social tensions and redistribution, and imagines the day-to-day lives of a citizenry living free from fear, oppression, violence and suffering. But there has always been a shadow at the heart of Utopia. If this is a depiction of the perfect state, why, as ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784787608
SKU
V9781784787608
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About Thomas More
Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) venerated by Catholics as Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, and noted Renaissance humanist. Ursula K. Le Guin is the author of twenty-two novels, four collections of essays, seven books of poetry, twelve children's books and over a hundred short stories. China Mieville is the author of numerous books, and winner of the ... Read more
Reviews for Utopia
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