- Paperback - Number of Pages: 160 pages
- Dimensions: 127 x 193.04 x 10.16mm - 136.08g
- Publication date: 30 Jun 1969
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
- Language: English
Sir Thomas More's evocative tale of Utopia, an island of peaceful and happy people, has been inspiring idealists for almost 500 years. Since appearing in Latin in 1516 it has served as an unofficial bible for religious and political movements worldwide and it still captures the imagination. In his great story, More took Plato's idea of the perfect republic to a new and exciting level. Seldom has a fictional world been endowed so carefully with its own culture - language, poetry, social structure, even precise working conditions and divorce laws. Today's fantasy writers often look to More's carefully crafted scheme of things when they establish their own visionary worlds. Most of the characters are fictional but there is more than an essence of allegory and much that is of interest to the historian. We can see the values held by European societies of the early 16th century and appreciate how greatly they differed from our own. More's writing is simple but picturesque, even poetic, and the sincerity of a wise man glows t...