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Utopia / Thomas More ; translated with an introduction by Paul Turner.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: eng Original language: Latin Series: Penguin classicsPublisher: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Eng. ; Baltimore, Md. : Penguin Books, 1965Description: 154 pages ; 18 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780140441659
  • 0140441654
Uniform titles:
  • Utopia. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 21 335.02 M.T.U
Contents:
Summary: "One of the most influential books in the Western tradition, Thomas More's Utopia (1516) describes an imaginary island community enjoying perfect social and political harmony. This volume is the first to offer the original English translation of the work in an edition that allows students to explore in depth Utopia's historical and intellectual contexts as well as the circumstances of its reception. Based on Ralph Robynson's revised and corrected 1556 translation, with modernized spelling and extensive annotations, this edition returns students to the voice of the past, allowing them to experience the text as it was first encountered by early modern English readers."--Jacket.
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includes bibliographical references.

pt. 1. Introduction: More's Utopia in Historical Perspective --
Texts --
Contexts --
Developments --
pt. 2. Utopia --
Letter from Peter Giles to Hierome Buslide --
A Meter of Four Verses --
A Short Meter of Utopia --
Gerard Noviomage of Utopia --
Cornelius Graphey to the Reader --
The Printer to the Reader --
Ralph Robynson's Dedicatory Letter to William Cecil.

"One of the most influential books in the Western tradition, Thomas More's Utopia (1516) describes an imaginary island community enjoying perfect social and political harmony. This volume is the first to offer the original English translation of the work in an edition that allows students to explore in depth Utopia's historical and intellectual contexts as well as the circumstances of its reception. Based on Ralph Robynson's revised and corrected 1556 translation, with modernized spelling and extensive annotations, this edition returns students to the voice of the past, allowing them to experience the text as it was first encountered by early modern English readers."--Jacket.

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