Publisher's Synopsis
Utopia - Saint Thomas More - Complete Classics - Utopia is a work of fiction and political philosophy first published in 1516 in the Latin language. English translations of the title include A Truly Golden Little Book, No Less Beneficial Than Entertaining, of the Best State of a Republic, and of the New Island Utopia (literal) and A Fruitful and Pleasant Work of the Best State of a Public Weal, and of the New Isle Called Utopia. It depicts a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. According to More, the island of Utopia is: " ...two hundred miles across in the middle part, where it is widest, and nowhere much narrower than this except towards the two ends, where it gradually tapers. These ends, curved round as if completing a circle five hundred miles in circumference, make the island crescent-shaped, like a new moon."
