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082			_a321.07
100			_aMore, Sir Thomas
300			_a134 p.
490			_aWordsworth classics of world literature
520			_aMore's Utopia is a complex, innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought, culminating in the famous 'description' of the Utopians, who live according to the principles of natural law, but are receptive to Christian teachings, who hold all possessions in common, and view gold as worthless. Drawing on the ideas of Plato, St Augustine and Aristotle, Utopia was to prove seminal in its turn, giving rise to the genres of utopian and dystopian prose fiction whose practitioners include Sir Francis Bacon, H.G. Wells, Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. At once a critique of the social consequences of greed and a meditation on the personal cost of entering public service, Utopia dramatises the difficulty of balancing the competing claims of idealism and pragmatism, and continues to invite its readers to become participants in a compelling debate concerning the best state of a commonwealth.
697			_aUtopias - Fiction.
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040			_aBR-BrIDEA _cBR-BrIDEA
090			_aP Year 8 321 _bMOR
245	1	0	_aUtopia _cSir Thomas More ; translated by Ralph Robinson ; with an introduction by Mishtooni Bose
260			_aWare, Hertforshire _bWordsworth _c1997
700			_aRobinson, Ralph _etranslator
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