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Utopia / Thomas More ; introduction by China Miéville ; essays by Ursula K. Le Guin.
Author
More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535
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Uniform title
Utopia.
English
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London ; New York : Verso, 2016.
Description
216 pages ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
HX810.5 .E54 2016b
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Subject(s)
Utopias
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Early works to 1800
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Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018
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Writer of introduction
Miéville, China
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Summary note
"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, men and women are both educated, and property is communal. In a text hovering between fantasy, satire, blueprint and game, More explores the theories and realities behind war, political conflicts, social tensions and redistribution, and imagines the day-to-day lives of a citizenry living free from fear, oppression, violence and suffering. But there has always been a shadow at the heart of Utopia. If this is a depiction of the perfect state, why, as well as wonder, does it provoke a growing unease? In this quincentenary edition, More's text is introduced by multi-award-winning author China Miéville and accompanied by four essays from Ursula K. Le Guin, today's most distinguished utopian writer and thinker.."--Amazon.com.
Notes
"The text of More's Utopia (1516) is based on the Cassell & Company edition of 1901, edited by David Price."
Language note
Translated from the Latin.
Contents
Introduction / China Miéville. Close to the shore ; The limits of Utopia
Utopia / Thomas Moore
Essays / Ursula K. Le Guin. A non-Euclidean view of California as a cold place to be ; Utopiyin, utopiyang ; A war without end ; The operating instructions.
ISBN
9781784787608 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
1784787604 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2016027510
OCLC
940933329
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