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"Designedly fantastic in suggestion of details, ""Utopia"" is the work of a scholar who had read Plato's ""Republic,"" and had his fancy quickened after reading Plutarch's account of Spartan life under Lycurgus. Beneath the veil of an ideal communism, into which there has been worked some witty extravagance, there lies a noble English argument. Sometimes More puts the case as of France when he means England. Sometimes there is ironical praise of the good faith of Christian kings, saving the book from censure as a political attack on the policy of Henry VIII. Erasmus wrote to a friend in 1517 that he should send for More's ""Utopia,"" if he had not read it, and ""wished to see the true source of all political evils."" And to More Erasmus wrote of his book, ""A burgomaster of Antwerp is so pleased with it that he knows it all by heart."""

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Author:   Thomas More
Publisher:   Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Imprint:   Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.195kg
ISBN:  

9781515366539

ISBN 10:   1515366537
Pages:   138
Publication Date:   06 August 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable  
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