Thomas More

1 book on BookJumpr, mentioned 7 times in other books.

Books by Thomas More

Utopia on The Republic: “if I should either propose such things as Plato has contrived in his 'Commonwealth,' or as the Utopians practise in theirs”
Utopia on Octavia: “and repeat, out of _Octavia_, a discourse of Seneca's to Nero, would it not be better for you to say nothing”
The Blithedale Romance on Utopia: “I ventured to whisper "Utopia," which, however, was unanimously scouted down, and the proposer very harshly maltreated, as if he had intended a latent satire.”
Cloud Atlas on Utopia: “Who can deny Old Rēkohu lay closer to More’s Utopia than our States of Progress governed by war-hungry princelings in Versailles & Vienna, Washington & Westminster?”
Wolf Hall on Utopia: “This is how the book Utopia begins: friends, talking in a garden.”
Against Interpretation and Other Essays on Utopia: “In the classic models of Utopian thinking—Plato's Republic, Campanella's City of the Sun, More's Utopia, Swift's land of the Houyhnhnms...”
Italo Calvino on Utopia: “Invisible Cities (1972) rewrites Marco Polo's travels recounted in Il milione as well as More's Utopia”
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire on Utopia: “The community instituted by Plato is more perfect than that which Sir Thomas More had imagined for his Utopia.”
The Anatomy of Melancholy on Utopia: “Sir Thomas More in his Utopia commends voluntary death, if he be sibi aut aliis molestus, troublesome to himself or others,”