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Utopia
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Book Details
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- Publish Date: May 6th, 2003
- Pages: 176
- Language: English
- Edition: Revised - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.80in - 5.06in - 0.43in - 0.30lb
- EAN: 9780140449105
- Recommended age: 18-UP
- Categories: • Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism• History & Theory - General• Utopias
About the Author
Thomas More was born a Londoner in 1477 or 1478. He served as a page, then studied at Oxford, was called to the bar and subsequently had a highly successful career in the City. Sent on an embassy to Flanders in 1515, he began Utopia there and completed it back in London. From 1528 he actively resisted innovation in religious matters and clashed with Henry VIII over his break with the Church. In July 1535, after he refused to accept the royal supremacy over the church, he was tried as a traitor at Westminster Hall and beheaded on Tower Hill. He was canonized by Pope Pius XI in 1935.
What people are saying
Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]
St Thomas More - the parish I grew up in was named after him and I read Utopia at an impressionable age. https://t.co/8SortlpM5q
Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich; hosts podcast about the History of Philosophy... without any gaps.
On today's new episode we meet Thomas More, author of the famous "Utopia" - but he was much... er, "more" than that: a great humanist and a major political figure to boot. https://t.co/44QtSXJJv6 https://t.co/ccjSKg9p5N
Cheap, and worth every penny. If this place goes down, find me as tomfreeman on BlueSky, or in the pub
Time to reacquaint myself with this delight. Fun fact: the word "utopia", popularised in English by the 16th-century philosopher Thomas More, comes from the ancient Greek term meaning "Where is Jessica Hyde?" https://t.co/x0D3ifi5aN
What people are saying
Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]
St Thomas More - the parish I grew up in was named after him and I read Utopia at an impressionable age. https://t.co/8SortlpM5q
Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich; hosts podcast about the History of Philosophy... without any gaps.
On today's new episode we meet Thomas More, author of the famous "Utopia" - but he was much... er, "more" than that: a great humanist and a major political figure to boot. https://t.co/44QtSXJJv6 https://t.co/ccjSKg9p5N