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by: Thomas More
Amazon.com's Price: $4.99 Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 300
EAN: 9781599869315
ISBN: 1599869314
Label: Filiquarian
Manufacturer: Filiquarian
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: November 07, 2007
Publisher: Filiquarian
Release Date: November 07, 2007
Sales Rank: 42429
Studio: Filiquarian
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Utopia, written by Sir Thomas More, depicts a fictional island with its own unique religion and customs. Sir Thomas More's work introduces readers into the concept of a perfect society with utopian, or perfect, ideas and beliefs. This timeless classic, originally written in 1516 and heavily influenced by Plato's Republic, is often read in schools as a required reading.
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Rating: - Astonishing - Given Who Wrote It
This is an astonishing work - given that it was written five hundred years ago by Thomas More, a rich Catholic and later Lord Chancellor.
Thomas More begins his tale autobiographically and relates how he meets a traveler called Raphael who is highly educated in Greek language and literature (who is, in other words, a humanist). The rest of the short book consists mainly of Raphael's discourse about the island of Utopia, which is Greek for "no place" (though it might also be a pun for ... Read More
Rating: - $2.39 for a book from the 1500s?
Assuming copyright law hasn't gone totally haywire since I last checked, Amazon is asking money for something in the public domain. This book is almost 500 years old. It belongs to the culture at large. So what does this $2.39 cover? Packaging and distribution? Can't be. This is a digital copy so there are no associated costs.
For the end consumer, you are better off going to Project gutenberg (google it) then running the free version through the Mobipocket creator or using Amazon's ... Read More
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