Book
Utopia
by Sir Thomas More trans. by Paul Turner
- Published
- 1516
- Genre
- Classics
- Pages
- 135
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18414.Utopia?ac=1&from_search=true
Reading measures
- Lexile
- 1390L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 13–17
- Ambleside year
- Years 8–9 · ages 13–17
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Sir Thomas More wrote Utopia in Latin and published it in 1516, inventing both the word and the form. It describes a fictional island society in the Atlantic Ocean whose communities hold their goods in common and organize their days around work, learning and leisure, and it frames the account as a conversation that leaves open whether the island is a model to be copied or a mirror held up to Europe. The word outlived the argument: a utopia now means any imagined ideal society — or a real community trying to build one — and its opposite, dystopia, is the same invention pointed the other way. This edition is Paul Turner's translation.
Collections
Harvard ClassicsTJEd Adult Recommended
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780140449105
- ISBN-10
- 0140449108
Tags
ClassicsCommunity Life-PoliticsFictionHarvard ClassicsHistorySatireSocial Studies-GovernmentThomas Jefferson Education Adult