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Utopia by Thomas More

Translated by Robert M. Adams and George M. Logan. The concept of paradise is as old as humankind, but it was Thomas More, in 1516, who invented Utopia. He derived it from the Greek meaning ‘no place’, with a pun on the Greek ‘good place’ – a piece of wordplay typical of More and his circle of learned friends. Utopia is not a straightforwardly philosophical text; it is an intriguing fiction which hides serious meanings beneath a playful exterior – or perhaps the other way around. Utopia opens with Thomas More meeting a mysterious traveller, Raphael Hythloday, in Antwerp. Hythloday contrasts the corrupt state of Europe with ‘the wonderfully wise and sacred institutions of the Utopians’. Utopia, he says, is a crescent-shaped country about the size of England, with 54 identical cities. Its inhabitants hold all property in common, avoid war and despise jewels and rich clothing. Every citizen learns a trade, and ‘no one sits around in idleness – But no one has to be exhausted with endless toil from early morning to late at night like a beast of burden.’ However, travel is severely restricted, euthanasia is practised, and the Utopians rely on slave-labour for less pleasant tasks such as slaughtering animals.

Features;

• Folio Society First Impression
• Publisher Folio Society, London; 2011
• Quarter Green Cloth with Printed Paper Sides Hardback, 159 pp
• Illustrations by Adam Simpson.
• Size 230 x 150mm, 800g

Condition: Fine – Superb Unmarked Copy

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