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Thomas More
What we can learn from a Renaissance nowhere
In 1516, a book was published in Latin with the enigmatic Greek-derived word as its title. Utopia-which could mean either good-place or…
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Includes the full text of More’s 1516 classic, Utopia , together with a wide range of background contextual materials.
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Offers a traveller’s account of a newly-discovered island (Utopia) where the inhabitants enjoy a social order based on natural reason and justice, and human fulfillment is open to all.
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Paints a fantastical picture of a distant island where society is perfected and people live in harmony. This work is also an attack on the author’s own corrupt, dangerous times…
Saint Thomas More
This extraordinary treatise on the values of rationality and reason is here presented in a sparkling new translation by Roger Clarke and accompanied by copious notes and additional texts.
In this timeless classic, "Utopia," Thomas More presents a fascinating exploration of an ideal society. Translated by Gilbert Burnet, this thought-provoking narrative delves into the structure of a perfect community…
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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…
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R W Chambers
While the story of Thomas More has been told many times and across many formats, one would be hard pressed to find a livelier and more readable account that that…
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Written by the English statesman, jurist, and scholar Saint Thomas More in the 16th century, "Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation" is a classic piece of Christian literature. The book, which…
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Sir Thomas More, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha…
Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most iconic, translated, and influential texts of the European Renaissance. This Handbook offers three different ways of thinking about the book: in terms…
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This book is where the term 'utopia' comes from, inspiring generations with its vision of an ideal society.
Robert Southey
Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so…
Richmal Crompton
A wonderful anniversary edition to celebrate the centenary of Richmal Crompton’s lovable troublemaker William Brown in More William.
Thomas Curran
In our hypercompetitive, winner-takes-all economy, average is a decidedly dirty word. Society rewards the extraordinary and we live in a hall of mirrors reflecting impossible ideals everywhere we look.
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Adam Silvera
Deluxe edition with a new final chapter.
Friends, Angela Thomas Smith
In a symphony of words, "Silently Hurting Inside; Hurt No More-Finding HOPE" gathers together the voices of ten extraordinary poets, each hailing from different corners of the USA. With vulnerability…
Sir Thomas More
Thomas More - a public servant who from 1518 served on Henry VIII's Privy Council and later became Lord Chancellor - wrote his History of King Richard III between around…
In The Four Last Things, More prescribes frequent meditation on Death, Judgment, Pain and Joy in order to combat the spiritual diseases of pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy and…
Thomas Moring
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
A utopia typically describes an imaginary community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its members. It was coined by Sir Thomas More for his book…
Five-hundred-year anniversary edition of More’s Utopia, with writing from major science fiction writers
The classic idea of a people’s commonwealth. Although it has become a byword for the unrealistic since publication in 1516, this extract demonstrates a far more real and practical side…
Utopia is a satirical work of fiction and political philosophy by Thomas More (1478-1535) published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island…
Utopia is a socio-political satire depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social, and political customs. Since publication, Utopia has become one of the most talked about works both…
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…
A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation is a work that was written by St. Thomas More while imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1534.
Thomas More was imprisoned by…
Who would have thought O my good uncle a few years past- that those in this country who would visit their friends lying in disease and sickness would come as…
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