Books by Thomas More

"The History of King Richard the Third" is Thomas More's English masterpiece. This book intends to make More's work accessible to 21st-century readers. It presents More's text with modern English spelling and punctuation, and with full annotation of linguistic difficulties and the historical background.

Inspiring, provocative, prophetic, and enigmatic, Utopia is the literary masterpiece of a visionary statesman and one of the most influential books of the modern world.

Paints a fantastical picture of a distant island where society is perfected and people live in harmony. This work is also an attack on the author's own corrupt, dangerous times, and on the failings of humanity.

A new edition of More's Utopia, one of the classics of Renaissance humanism. It is the first to provide an accurate Latin text and facing-page English translation, and includes an introduction, textual apparatus, full commentary and guide to the critical literature.

With an Introduction by Mishtooni Bose.More's Utopia is a complex, innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought, culminating in the famous 'description' of the Utopians, who live according to the principles of natural law, but are receptive toChristian teachings, who hold all possessions in common, and view gold as worthless. Drawing on the ideas of Plato, St Augustine and Aristotle, Utopia was to prove seminal in its turn, giving rise to the genres of utopian and dystopian prose fiction whose practitioners include Sir Francis Bacon, H.G. Wells, Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. At once a critique of the social consequences of greed and a meditation on the personal cost of entering public service, Utopia dramatises the difficulty of balancing the competing claims of idealism and pragmatism, and continues to invite its readers to become participants in a compelling debate concerning the best state of a commonwealth.

Thomas Mores Utopia, der i 2016 fylder 500 år, har lagt navn til den politiske utopi, som den dag i dag stadig er en del af den politiske diskussion. Thomas Mores Utopia kan læses på linje med Machiavellis Fyrsten som et af de klassiske værker, der reflekterer over statsdannelsen og den politiske magt. På øen Utopia findes den ideelle stat. Et samfund, hvor utopien er realiseret i alle detaljer; retspolitik, ejendomsret, beskæftigelse, religiøse dogmer, og selv utopiernes interne intime relationer er beskrevet i denne klassiker. Fortællingen er et fascinerende - og til tider skræmmende - værk om at skabe det perfekte samfund. Genudgivelsen af klassikeren er med nyt forord af Clement Kjersgaard.