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Book cover image of Utopia by Thomas More

Authors: Thomas More, Paul Turner (Translator), Paul Turner (Introduction), Paul Turner
ISBN-13: 9780140449105, ISBN-10: 0140449108
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: May 2003
Edition: REV

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Author Biography: Thomas More

Book Synopsis

16th-century classic by English ecclesiastic and scholar envisioned a tolerant, patriarchal island kingdom free of private property, violence, bloodshed and vice. Forerunner of many later attempts.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Pt. 1Introduction: More's Utopia in Historical Perspective1
Texts3
Contexts26
Developments51
Pt. 2Utopia81
Letter from Peter Giles to Hierome Buslide202
A Meter of Four Verses205
A Short Meter of Utopia206
Gerard Noviomage of Utopia206
Cornelius Graphey to the Reader207
The Printer to the Reader207
Ralph Robynson's Dedicatory Letter to William Cecil209
Selected Bibliography213
Index225

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