Utopia (English Classics S.) (Penguin Great Ideas) (Yale Nota Bene)

by Saint Thomas More

This is 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 to More's vision.

• ISBN13: 9780872432413
• Publish Date: 1 October 1999 (first published December 1908)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Templegate Publishers,U.S.
• Edition: New edition
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 166
• Language: English

Reviews

[jamiereadthis]

Wit, satire, irony— such a powerful force. Of course it’s contradictory; of course the utopia also qualifies as dystopia. It dares to think differently, and speaks truth to power in the days when, if More did it directly instead of sideways through satire, such a thing would land him in the Tower. (He landed there anyway.)

A brilliant read for the history and hypocrisy contained in that time and place, and also our own.

(I might be in the minority, but book 1 > book 2.)