Utopia - by Thomas More (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"The text of More's Utopia (1516) is based on the Cassell & Company edition of 1901, edited by David Price."<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Five-hundred-year anniversary edition of More's <i>Utopia</i>, with writing from major science fiction writers</b> <p/>Five hundred years since its first publication, Thomas More's <i>Utopia</i> 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. <p/> But there has always been a shadow at the heart of <i>Utopia</i>. If this is a depiction of the perfect state, why, as well as wonder, does it provoke a growing unease? <p/> In this quincentenary edition, published in conjunction with Somerset House, 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..<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"We can't do without this book. We are all and have always been Thomas More's children."<br><b> --China Miéville</b> <p/> "I am offered the Grand Inquisitor's choice. Will you choose freedom without happiness, or happiness without freedom? The only answer one can make, I think, is: No."<br><b> --Ursula K. Le Guin</b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Sir Thomas More</b> (1478-1535) was a counsellor to Henry VIII of England and a revered Renaissance humanist scholar. He was executed for refusing to acknowledge the king as head of the Church of England and was eventually canonized by the Catholic Church as a result. <p/> <b>Ursula K. Le Guin</b> is the author of twenty-two novels, four collections of essays, seven books of poetry, twelve children's books and over a hundred short stories. <p/> <b>China Miéville</b> is the award-winning author of numerous works of fiction and non-fiction, including the <i>The City and The City</i> and <i>This Census-Taker</i>.
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