Image from Google Jackets

Utopia

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Middlesex; Penguin Books; 1984Description: 154 pISBN:
  • 140441654
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 321.07 MOR
Summary: Sir Thomas More's entertaining description of Utopia, an island supporting a perfectly organized and happy people, was a best-seller when it first appeared in Latin in 1516. This work of a Catholic martyr has later been seen as the source of Ana baptism, Mormonism, and even Communism. Utopia revolutionized Plato's classical blueprint of the perfect republic, mainly by its realism. Locating his island in the (then) New World, More endowed it with a language and poetry, and detailed the length of the working day and even the divorce laws. Such precision giyes a disturbing and excit ing impact to Utopia, which still remains a book of the future. The cover shows a detail from the painting 'The Construction of the Tower of Babel' attributed to Hendrick van Cleve III in the Rijksmuseum 'Kroller Muller', Otterloo, Holland (Snark International)
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Books Books Gandhi Smriti Library 321.07 MOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 25877
Total holds: 0

Sir Thomas More's entertaining description of Utopia, an island supporting a perfectly organized and happy people, was a best-seller when it first appeared in Latin in 1516. This work of a Catholic martyr has later been seen as the source of Ana baptism, Mormonism, and even Communism.

Utopia revolutionized Plato's classical blueprint of the perfect republic, mainly by its realism. Locating his island in the (then) New World, More endowed it with a language and poetry, and detailed the length of the working day and even the divorce laws. Such precision giyes a disturbing and excit ing impact to Utopia, which still remains a book of the future.

The cover shows a detail from the painting 'The Construction of the Tower of Babel' attributed to Hendrick van Cleve III in the Rijksmuseum 'Kroller Muller', Otterloo, Holland (Snark International)

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

Powered by Koha