Inspiring, provocative, prophetic, and enigmatic, Utopia is the literary masterpiece of a visionary statesman and one of the most influential books of the modern world.
Based on Thomas More's penetrating analysis of the folly and tragedy of the politics of his time and all times, Utopia (1516) is a seedbed of alternative political institutions and a perennially challenging exploration of the possibilities and limitations of political action.
This Norton Critical Edition is built on the translation that Robert M. Adams created for it in 1975. For the Third Edition, George M. Logan has carefully revised the translation, improving its accuracy while preserving the grace and verve that have made it the most highly regarded modern rendering of More's Renaissance Latin work.
Preface Translatorʼs Note Abbreviations The Text of Utopia Backgrounds Plato • [The Guardians] Ovid • [The Golden Age and After] The Acts of the Apostles • [The Community] Lucian of Samosata • [Saturnʼs Age] St. Ambrose • [Nabothʼs Vineyard] St. Benedict • [Monastic Rules] Chapter 33 Chapter 34 Anonymous • From The Land of Cockayne Amerigo Vespucci • From The Four Voyages The First Voyage The Fourth Voyage G. R. Elton • [The Problems of the Realm] The Humanist Circle: Letters Peter Giles to Jerome Busleyden Jerome Busleyden to Thomas More Guillaume Budé to Thomas Lupset Erasmus of Rotterdam to Johann Froben Thomas More to Peter Giles Erasmus to Ulrich von Hutten
