A traveler describes an imaginary island commonwealth with no private property, gently satirizing the Europe of More's day. The work that named an entire genre of ideal societies.
Books mentioned in Utopia (2)
The Republic by Plato: “if I should either propose such things as Plato has contrived in his 'Commonwealth,' or as the Utopians practise in theirs”
Octavia: “and repeat, out of _Octavia_, a discourse of Seneca's to Nero, would it not be better for you to say nothing”
Books that mention Utopia (7)
The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne: “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 by David Mitchell: “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 by Hilary Mantel: “This is how the book Utopia begins: friends, talking in a garden.”
Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag: “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 by Martin McLaughlin: “Invisible Cities (1972) rewrites Marco Polo's travels recounted in Il milione as well as More's Utopia”
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton: “Sir Thomas More in his Utopia commends voluntary death, if he be sibi aut aliis molestus, troublesome to himself or others,”