Sir Thomas More - Utopia

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2 TITLE PAGE UTOPIA The Influential Classic THOMAS MORE

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4 AN INTRODUCTION THE WRITING OF UTOPIA THE ISLAND OF UTOPIA UTOPIA AND THE REAL WORLD MORE'S CAREER DILEMMA A UTOPIAN IN TUDOR ENGLAND MORE'S INTENTION IN UTOPIA INTERPRETING UTOPIA UNCOVERING MORE THE MAN THE LEGACY OF UTOPIA REFERENCES

5 ABOUT NIALL KISHTAINY

6 I LETTER: THOMAS MORE TO PETER GILES

7 II LETTER: PETER GILES TO JEROME DE BUSLEYDEN

8 III LETTER: THOMAS MORE TO PETER GILES

9 IV “UTOPIA” NOTE

10 V BOOK ONE

11 VI BOOK TWO OF THEIR TOWNS, PARTICULARLY AMAUROT OF THEIR MAGISTRATES OF THEIR TRADES, AND MANNER OF LIFE OF THEIR SOCIAL RELATIONS OF THE TRAVEL OF THE UTOPIANS OF THEIR WEALTH OF THEIR LEARNING AND PHILOSOPHIES OF THEIR LEARNING OF THEIR SLAVES OF THEIR DEATHS OF THEIR MARRIAGES OF THEIR LAWS AND PUNISHMENTS OF THEIR FOREIGN POLICIES OF THEIR MILITARY DISCIPLINE OF THE RELIGIONS OF THE UTOPIANS OF THEIR COMMONWEALTH

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THOMAS MORE

This edition first published 2021

Introduction copyright © Niall Kishtainy 2021

This Capstone Classics edition of Thomas More's Utopia is based on the Gilbert Burnet translation.

The Gutenberg Project: http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2130/pg2130.txt.

The Gutenberg version is drawn from Sir Thomas More's Utopia. Burnet's Translation . Edited by Henry Morley. London, Cassell & Company, 1889.

The prefatory letters and other materials are sourced from Open Utopia, edited by Stephen Duncombe, under a creative commons licence: https://theopenutopia.org/home/.

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