Utopia Book Thomas More

The book was published in multiple languages including english consists of 135 pages and is available in paperback format.

Utopia book thomas more. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Erasmus wrote to a friend in 1517 that he should send for more s utopia if. In 1516 sir thomas more an english scholar writer and lawyer published his literary work utopia which was a book that explored the notion of a perfect and imaginary society. A utopia j uː ˈ t oʊ p i ə yoo toh pee ə is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its citizens.

Arguably one of the first books to invent an imaginary world thomas more s utopia describes the travels of one man raphael hythloday to an undiscovered island that he considers to be the best country on earth. Nope he s not exaggerating. Sometimes more puts the case as of france when he means england. The first edition of the novel was published in 1516 and was written by thomas more.

The narrative form of book 1 is a conversation of hythloday with thomas more and peter giles and of book 2 the form is a monologue by hythloday. Sometimes there is ironical praise of the good faith of christian kings saving the book from censure as a political attack on the policy of henry viii. In book 1 thomas more not only the author but also a main character arrives in antwerp on a business trip where he runs into an old friend peter giles and meets a new friend raphael hythloday. Hythloday speaking in book 1 agrees with plato and the people of utopia that as long as everyone has his own property there is no hope of curing them and putting society back into good condition.

Raphael hythloday a portuguese traveler when portugal ruled the seas with a very unlikely name for a native of that country. The term was coined by sir thomas more for his 1516 book utopia describing a fictional island society in the south atlantic ocean off the coast of south america the opposite of a utopia is a dystopia which dominates the. A long time ago in a galaxy far far away was the commonwealth of utopia well almost. The book is a frame narrative primarily.

Hythloday is a great traveler and has all sorts of controversial opinions so the three of them head. The main characters of this classics philosophy story are thomas more raphael hythloday.