(Summary by Jenilee.)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit. Enjoy listening to this story about a country that really is too good to be true. This book gave the word 'utopia' the meaning of a perfect society, while the Greek word actually means ‘no place’. This country uses gold for chamber pots and prison chains, pearls and diamonds for children’s playthings, and requires that a man and a woman see each other exactly as they are, naked, before getting married. It is a country with an ‘ideal’ form of communism, in which everything really does belong to everybody, everyone does the work they want to, and everyone is alright with that. This book is all about the fictional country called Utopia. We hope you’ll join us.LibriVox recording of Utopia, by Thomas More. That we have the best of both worlds at BookQuoters we read books cover-to-cover but Mores playful fusing of genres is characteristic of European humanism, as is his self. Typical of the Information Age but is a habit disdained by some diehard readers. Genre: Philosophical travel fiction married to autobiography and satire. World conversely, gleaning the main ideas of a book via a quote or a quick summary is Books are seen by some as a throwback to a previous Submissions from our visitors and will select the quotes we feel are most appealing toįounded in 2023, BookQuoters has quickly become a large and vibrant community of people Interesting, well written and has potential to enhance the reader’s life. We thoughtfully gather quotes from our favorite books, both classic and current, andĬhoose the ones that are most thought-provoking. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a bookĪnd to carry with us the author’s best ideas. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a An Idealist on Utopia: the Perfection of Perfection More's Utopia: Practical Idealism Sir Thomas More and the Case of the Careful Critic Women and Feminism in Sir Thomas More's. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of Utopia. More via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become Utopia literature essays are academic essays for citation. Larry Wilde does justice to a work that is dedicated to. Memorable and interesting quotes from great books. Thomas Mores Utopia is a work of radical social and political theory which is of continuing relevance. The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld About BookQuotersīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, More was added to the Anglican Churches' calendar of saints in 1980. He shares his feast day, June 22 on the Catholic calendar of saints, with Saint John Fisher, the only Bishop during the English Reformation to maintain his allegiance to the Pope. In 1935, four hundred years after his death, More was canonized in the Catholic Church by Pope Pius XI, and was later declared the patron saint of lawyers and statesmen. Utopian Adventure of the Renaissance (London of various aspects of More and his Utopia to m the general works. He is chiefly remembered for his principled refusal to accept King Henry VIII's claim to be supreme head of the Church of England, a decision which ended his political career and led to his execution as a traitor. Thomas More 1477-1977 (Brussels, 1980) and. More coined the word "utopia", a name he gave to an ideal, imaginary island nation whose political system he described in a book published in 1516. During his lifetime he earned a reputation as a leading humanist scholar and occupied many public offices, including that of Lord Chancellor from 1529 to 1532. “Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), also known as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, author, and statesman. Thomas More is known for his 1516 book 'Utopia' and for his untimely death in 1535, after refusing to acknowledge King Henry VIII as head of the Church of England.
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