Utopia

Name: Utopia
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.8 (59 reviews)
Author: Sir Thomas More
ISBN: 9798212708647

Author: Sir Thomas More, Gilbert Burnet

Narrator: Graham Scott

Unabridged: 4 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Voices of Today Pty LTD

Published: 07/13/2023

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Satire

Synopsis

Utopia is a social and political satire, in the form of a traveler’s tale in an apparently blissful society based upon natural reason and justice.Sir Thomas More explores the role of philosophy—and unrealistic idealism—in government and offers a scathing analysis of the politics and society of his time.

About Sir Thomas More

Sir Thomas More (1478–1535), was placed at number thirty-seven in the BBC’s poll of the “100 Greatest Britons.” An English statesman, lawyer, humanist, saint, poet, and author, he was one of the most versatile and talented men of his age. He held important government positions, including serving as Lord Chancellor. Though he had been a long-time friend of King Henry VIII, he was a staunch Catholic and could not accept the king’s demand that all subjects acknowledge the king above the pope, resulting in his execution in 1535. With his writing of Utopia, he takes his place with the most eminent humanists of the Renaissance.

About Graham Scott

Graham Scott is a narrator and voice actor based in the UK. As well as solo performances of works by authors including PG Wodehouse, Charles Dickens, R Austin Freeman, Dorothy L. Sayers, Jules Verne, Anna Katherine Green, Joseph Conrad, GK Chesterton, and John Buchan, Graham is also a regular performer in group productions with both Voices of Today and the Online Stage. Website: www.GrahamScottAudio.com

Reviews

Goodreads review by Henry

As the centuries roll by, more and more books are written about Utopian societies that should be established on Earth, but the few actually tried... fail. Sir Thomas or Saint Thomas More, depending on your affiliation, Utopia , ( greatly influenced by Plato's The Republic) is a satire about tumultuo......more

Goodreads review by Leonard

The term “utopia” is Thomas More’s most enduring invention. Its meaning is not completely clear, however: is utopia a good place (εὖ-τόπος) or a no place or nowhere (οὐ-τόπος)? Probably both: in a sense, a utopia is a place “too good to be true”. Socrates described the first utopia in Plato’s Republ......more

Goodreads review by هدى

توماس مور كما هو معروف هو أول من صاغ هذه الكلمة يوتوبيا وهي تعني في لغتها الأصلية :ليس في مكان وهكذا راح يتصور مور في كتابه هذا المجتمع مثالي كما هكذا بدأت بذور فلسفة المدينة الفاضلة وربما الاشتراكية أيضا بشكل طفيف :::::::::::::: إن نموذج مور لهو نموذج خيالي بحت حتى في اختياره للمكان فهو ليس موجود على الخ......more