Thomas More: 46 books

Contents: 1. The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli 2. The Life of Sir Thomas More, by William Roper 3. Utopia, by Sir Thomas More 4. The Ninety-Five Theses, To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation, and On the Freedom of a Christian, by Martin Luther Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics...

'Richard . . . was . . . little of stature, ill-featured of limbs, crook-backed, his left shoulder much higher then his right, hard-favoured of visage . . . malicious, wrathful, envious . . .' The History of King Richard III by Thomas More, the celebrated 'man for all seasons', gives us King...

While Thomas More first coined the word utopia in his 1516 book of the same name, the concept of a near perfect society dates at least back to the period of classical antiquity. Plato's "The Republic" is often cited as one of earliest attempts at addressing just such a society. However in the 16th century...

  With the publication of Utopia, Thomas More provided a scathing analysis of the shortcomings of his own society, a realistic suggestion for an alternative mode of social organization, and a satire on unrealistic idealism. Over the centuries, Utopia has become an immensely influential...

The systematic study of Utopias cannot but be fruitful of results. Fantastic though many of the systems are, each is nevertheless a mirror of the prevailing thought of the period in which it is written and a key to the ideals of the best men. To write properly the history of Utopias from the time...

Can we live better? 7 classic utopias is a collection of the most famous classical works on the topic of an ideal society.For thousands of years human beings have dreamt of perfect worlds, worlds free of conflict, hunger and unhappiness. But can these worlds ever exist in reality?Many thinkers and...

"Utopia" (le titre complet en latin est "De optimo rei publicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia, ou par extense, Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus de optimo rei publicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia") est un ouvrage de Thomas More paru en 1516. Il s'agit...

"Utopia" (le titre complet en latin est "De optimo rei publicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia, ou par extense, Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus de optimo rei publicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia") est un ouvrage de Thomas More paru en 1516. Il s'agit...

« Utopia » (le titre complet en latin est « De optimo rei publicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia, ou par extense, Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus de optimo rei publicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia ») est un ouvrage de Thomas More paru en 1516. Il s'agit d'un livre fondateur...

Citation : « - Eh bien, cher Raphaël, dis-je, décrivez-nous cette île, nous vous en prions instamment. Donnez-nous un tableau complet des cultures, des fleuves, des villes, des hommes, des mœurs, des institutions et des lois, enfin de tout ce qu’à votre avis nous désirons connaître. -...

Ce livre est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur Kobo. Utopia est l'un des ouvrages de Thomas More, qui a eu un succès particulier en France au XVIIe siècle et au XVIIIe siècle. Bien que Thomas More ne fût pas économiste, mais juriste, historien, théologien et homme politique,...

'Even if you can't eradicate harmful ideas or remedy established evils, that's no reason to turn your back on the body politic' In Utopia, Thomas More gives us a traveller's account of a newly-discovered island where the inhabitants enjoy a social order based on natural reason and justice,...

Five-hundred-year anniversary edition of More’s Utopia, with writing from major science fiction writers Five hundred years since its first publication, Thomas More’s Utopia remains astonishingly radical and provocative. More imagines an island nation where thousands live in peace and harmony,...

First published in Latin in 1516, Utopia was the work of Sir Thomas More (1477–1535), the brilliant humanist, scholar, and churchman executed by Henry VIII for his refusal to accept the king as the supreme head of the Church of England.In this work, which gave its name to the whole genre of books...