Utopia
$17.76
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
20 November 2012
Summary
A major new translation by Dominic Baker-Smith of More’s perennially popular Latin text
“Even if you can’t eradicate harmful ideas or remedy established evils, that’s no reason to turn your back on the body politic.”
Utopia is Thomas More’s work of philosophical fiction, imagining the island of the title, on which thousands live in peace and harmony. Through dialogue and correspondence between Raphael Hythloday and his friends and contemporaries, More explores the the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141442327 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141442328 |
| Author: | Thomas More, Dominic Baker-Smith |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 20 November 2012 |
| Weight: | 148g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
About The Author
Thomas More
Thomas More (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 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.
Dominic Baker-Smith (Translator)
Dominic Baker-Smith OBE was a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, Professor of English at University College, Cardiff, and Emeritus Professor at the University of Amsterdam. His books included More’s ‘Utopia’ (2000) and he edited three volumes in the University of Toronto Press’ Collected Works of Erasmus.
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