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Utopia: Creative English Classic Reads

Utopia: Creative English Classic Reads

More, Thomas

Paperback

Classic Fiction

ISBN10: 1494342537
ISBN13: 9781494342531
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Dec 4 2013
Pages: 134
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
More's best known and most controversial work, Utopia is a novel written in Latin. More completed and Erasmus published the book in Leuven in 1516, but it was only translated into English and published in his native land in 1551 (long after More's execution), and the 1684 translation became the most commonly cited. More (also a character in the book) and the narrator/traveller, Raphael Hythlodeaus (whose name alludes both to the healer archangel Raphael, and 'speaker of nonsense', the surname's Greek meaning), discuss modern ills in Antwerp, as well as describe the political arrangements of the imaginary island country of Utopia (Greek pun on 'ou-topos' [no place], 'eu-topos' [good place]) among themselves as well as to Pieter Gillis and Jerome de Busleyden. Utopia's original edition included a symmetrical Utopian alphabet omitted by later editions, but which may have been an early attempt at cryptography or precursor of shorthand.

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