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Renaissance · Political fiction
Utopia
by Thomas More. A traveler describes an imaginary commonwealth whose institutions expose contradictions in European society.
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- Date
- 1516
- Origin
- England
- Era
- Renaissance
- Genre
- Political fiction
- Canon tier
- Essential core
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Length
- Medium
- Collection
- The Western Canon
Subjects and themes
Why it matters
A traveler describes an imaginary commonwealth whose institutions expose contradictions in European society.
This work is included on the basis of great books / harvard. Its cataloged influence level is 5 out of 5.
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