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I just finished Time was Soft There, am in the middle of Utopia and Northanger Abbey, and I'm just starting to make inroads on Peter Ackroyd's London The Biography. Winter break is awesome. ... the American West by Stephen Ambrose
11.) Demonology by King James I
12.) Casanova's Women by Judith Summers
13.) Utopia by Thomas More
14.) The Book of the Courtier by Baldesar Castiglione
15.) The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
16.) Doctor Who: The Eyeless by Lance Parkin
17 ... What about the The Divine Comedy, Faerie Queen and Utopia? Are looking for literature that is more novely or do poem-y things count? What's more, if you feel like you want to go earlier than that (philosophy), here is a list:
- Thomas More's Utopia - 1516
- Machiavelli's The Prince - 1516
- Hobbes' Leviathan - 1651 (similar to Plato's Republic)
- Voltaire's Micromégas - 1752
G.E. Lessing and Thomas More Just finished Terrorist Hunter - scary book btw - and Salamander Fire Tome Trilogy Book 1 and currently I am reading Utopia. ... (Big Brother is Watching You), I wanted to know what it was all about. I have read utopia books before (Brave New World, Utopia), and would place this in the same category. I really liked the book, and give it 4 stars.
Now, for my next book... I decided to move from category to category, ... ... (Big Brother is Watching You), I wanted to know what it was all about. I have read utopia books before (Brave New World, Utopia), and would place this in the same category. I really liked the book, and give it 4 stars. ... of a Woman by Stefan Zweig
33.Un mariage à Lyon by Stefan Zweig
34.The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
35.Utopia by Thomas More
36.Civitas Solis by Thoma Campanella
37.New Atlantis by Francis Bacon
38.We by Yevgeni Zamyatin
39.1984 by George Orwell
40.The Master ... ... Plutarch's Lives
4. selections by Xenophon
5. The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
6. The Republic by Plato
7. Utopia by Sir Thomas More
8. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
9. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Progress:
... 28) Utopia --Really good. This is a book about how a perfect society should be run. Part treatise, part travelouge (as Thomas More makes it appear that this place has been observed and traveled to),this book lays out in various detail how Utopia should be run. At times it was a bit hard to ... ... I just saw the Doctor Who episode called "Utopia" ... in which the Master returns! Rawk on!
I'll have to reread Utopia sometime. Read it in my teens during a major jonesing for utopias/dystopias, reading Orwell, Zamyatin, Huxley, etc.
Sir / Saint Thomas More also plays a major ... ... these:
L'Etranger - Albert Camus (read in 1995 in French for 'A' Level French lit. I'll have to re-read in English.)
Utopia - Thomas More (a set text in one of my first-year uni courses - 1996/7)
Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky (read it when I was still at school)
Jane Eyre - Charl ... ... Democracy
332 Smart and Simple Financial Strategies for Busy People
333 Aldo Leopold's Southwest
335 Utopia
342 The Constitution of the United States of America
352 W: The First Hundred Days
362 Devil in the Details
363 Dragonfly: Nasa and the crisis ... 7) Utopia
I read it because it's mentioned in perhaps my favorite film Ever After. Utopia was really soooo... socialist? It's great as an introduction of alternative ideas for society, but I don't really think it was a manual. I see where Danielle would find some satisfaction in it in the ... ... more than one of each spelling grammar with an "e". The one cited in the OED is the 16th century Sir Thomas More (he of Utopia). Most of the Moores seem to be 19th century - the one you're thinking of is presumably the author of Lalla Rookh?
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The OED only lists "um" and "uh", the ... ... Wells? Johnathan Swift (what else is "Gulliver's Travels" but "Lost In Space" in tall ships)? Sir Thomas More's "Utopia" Robert Louis Stevenson's Mr. Hyde?... Thanks for the review of Looking Backward. That's one of the Utopian books I never got around to reading. I have read Utopia and Lost Horizon. Not sure if I'll read the Bellamy book or not. ... Criminology : Janine Latus - If I am Missing or Dead
HX Socialism, Communism, Anarchism : Sir Thomas Moore - Utopia
JC Political Theory : Michael Ignatieff - The Rights Revolution
JL Political Institutions and Public Administration (Canada and Latin America) : ... Upon seeing Lady Lulu's list, I must edit my opinion. Utopia and the Robert Frost poetry would be a maybe, Irish Myths and Legends would be a must-have.
Although I, too, wonder why we didn't ALL get surveys? No e-mail yet... From the different lists above, there are 7 titles I would pick up:
Lolita and Utopia
Waverley, The Master and Margarita, and Of Human Bondage
Leviathan and Moll Flanders
I find the lists fairly appealing.
Edited PS: But why don't they send a long list—I ... ... particularly adventurous, except for The Last of the Mohicans--really do we need a $56 US edition of Cooper's chestnut?--Utopia and The Book of the Courtier? I can't imagine with so much great literature begging for a fine edition, that we really need to do these again. Why not another Ru ... ... your description of Thoreau, by the way - you're sure he's not being satirical sometimes, like Thomas Moore was in Utopia?
Okay, enough rambling... time for bed. Have a good weekend, everyone! ... wouldn't recommend buying this (unless you're like me and a chronic re-reader) but it's definitely worth a read.
10. Utopia - Thomas More (135pp)
This was another book I had down as wanting to read regardless of whether it was enjoyable or not. I believe that More wasn't really serious ... another week, another update.
7. Inferno - Dante Aligheri (292pp)
8. Utopia - Thomas More (135pp)
9. Collected Short Stories - Roald Dahl (762pp)
10. The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan (375pp)
11. Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks (385pp)
... /strike>
c. Barchester Towers
d. The Man Who Was Thursday
e. Jude The Obscure
f. Utopia
g. Fanny Hill
h. Lord Of The Flies
i. My Man Jeeves
2. Modern Fiction (Written 1960 to present)
a. Caugh ... ... Confessions of St. Augustine
2. The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe
3. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
4. Utopia by Thomas More
5. The Treasure of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pisan
6. The Book of the Courtier by Baldassare Castiglione
7. Prologue to Revolution
8 ... Three Early Modern Utopias: Thomas More: Utopia / Francis Bacon: New Atlantis / Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines by Thomas More, Francis Bacon, and Henry Neville, edited by Susan Bruce, OUP USA 1999
re 214: dear Schmerguls: I would if I had the time but I don't! But I've looked at ... ... that I've read already and the only one that was initially an ARC), Saturday by Ian McEwan, 3 by Flannery O'Conner, Utopia by St. Thomas More, Letters from the Earth by Mark Twain, The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester, Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac, ... ... yeah Elizabeth's publicist said she'd send me a hard copy as soon as she got them in.
I finally got my Penguin Classic Utopia and Guernica today. Original Categories: Doctor Thorne, Therese Raquin, Utopia, A Modern Comedy, Steppenwolf, The Counterlife
Extra Credit: The Wild Geese Therese Raquin **½
by Emile Zola
06/27/08
The Magician's Nephew *
by C.S. Lewis
06/27/08
Utopia (#135) ***
by Thomas More
06/27/08
The Wild Geese ****½
by Ogai Mori
06/28/08
The Silver Spoon ***
by John Galsworthy
06/29/08
Rashomon and Other Stories ***½
by ... ... listed under "coerced into reading" and, well, let's say they look familiar. I had to read Confessions of St. Augustine, Utopia, and The Prince for Humanities 201 (a "great texts" course). The book of Margery Kempe was on the reading list for a course I signed up for this summer, but ... (ETA: Moved the touchstoned lists down to messages 15-22. Re-doing the touchstones for all these books was getting to be a pain. I've got to find a better way to do this for the 999 -- what a mess I've made.)
Asian Fiction
1. War Trash (China)
2. The Blue Sky (Mongolia)
3. Mr ... ... nes
331- Daughters of the Shtetl by Susan Glenn
333- Forest Dreams Forest Nightmares by Nancy Langston
335- Utopia by Thomas More
336- Principle and Interest by Herbert Sloan
338- Men, Women, and Work by Mary Blewett
345- The Common Peace by Cynthia Herrup ... ... Henry James
A: Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
S: A Room with a View, E. M. Forster
O: Utopia, Thomas More
N: Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell
D: The Monk, Matthew Lewis
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/British_Classics/ ... by John Stuart Mill
7. Zadig by Voltaire
8. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Double {complete}
9. Utopia by Sir Thomas More
10. Rhetoric by Aristotle
11. Poetics by Aristotle
12. Liberalism by Ludwig Von Mises
13. The Revolution: A Manifesto by Ron Paul
14. ... 23. Utopia by Thomas More (audio)
Utopia offers an interesting critical look at live in the 16th century on the one hand as well as proposing an idea for an ideal civilization. Whether Utopia was meant to be a satire or represented More's personal views remains unclear, however, the ... I've just started Shamela by Henry Fielding, and Utopia by Thomas More. ... by Burton G. Malkiel. W. W. Norton (2007), Edition: 9, Paperback, 416 pages -finished reading Jan. 11, 2008
2. Utopia (Crofts Classics) by Thomas, Sir, Saint More. (Thomas More) Harlan Davidson (1949), Paperback, 83 pages (Completed Sunday Jan. 27 Will write a short review soon.) ... Erewhon Samuel Butler
Erewhon Revisited Samuel Butler
Gullivers Travels Swift
One David Karp
Utopia Thomas More
I ran into a note about A New Atlantis by Francis Bacon; it said that Bacon predicted all sorts of scientific developments. And I love Baroque scientific literature so I took it out of the library.
It was a big disappointment. It was published posthumously, and I think maybe he hadn't ... Utopia and Erewhon. ... $18!
The Portable Medieval Reader
The New Atalantis by Delarivier Manley
The Norton Reader (Eighth Edition)
Utopia by Thomas More
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (reading Pride and Prejudice right now)
The Last Chronicle of B ... ... david thoreau
odyssey by homer
pnin by vladimir nabokov
politics...
politics by aristotle
utopia by thomas more
utilitarianism by john stuart mill
anthem by ayn rand
erewhon by samuel butler
fiction...
siddhartha by herman hesse ... ... brary
112. Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay - KEEPER
113. The Last Light of the Sun by Guy Gavriel Kay - keeper
114. Utopia by Thomas More - electronic
115. The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay - keeper
116. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling - ... Keeping in mind, of course, that Utopia was a satire...
:-) ... Death of a Doxy Archie Goodwn mentions that Wolfe had investigated the murder of the Princes, and had removed More's Utopia from his library because More had framed Richard III.
(Nero Wolfe citation kindly provided by a member of the Black Orchid LT group.) ... that Wolfe had once spent a week investigating the murder of the young Princes, and then removed Thomas More's Utopia from his bookshelves on the basis that he had framed Richard III. At the time Wolfe was preparing to investigate the Rosenberg murder after have read the first ... 2-Utopia, how so? I've read it and I'm not sure what you're qualifier is for calling it sci-fi.
Also, I think Frankenstein has merit due to the fact that it's more completely sci-fi (in that the fictional science of the novel is central to the plot).
I guess what I'm saying is that some ... ... guess to be fair your teacher may have decided to play Goldilocks taken a middle path.
Anyway SF precursors.
You have Utopia by Thomas More in the very early 16th century.
New Atlantis by Francis Bacon (early 17th century) describes a utopia based upon experimental science.
In the 1 ... ... of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius (a standby book as a young teen-so gossipy and thus oddly comforting)
Utopia by Thomas More
Metamorphoses and Ars Amatoria by Ovid
Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
The Magic ... ... forgive me if my post jumps around a bit. A few people asked about More and classlessness: there's a slave class in Utopia, and it's one of the reasons that everyone else has leisure time for philosophical contemplation. The most genuine precursor to More is probably Plato's Republic. T ... ... day, so that could be it.
On your question, I wonder what the source, so to speak, says ... have you read the original Utopia? I haven't ... I'd be curious to know how More envisioned things? ... nations for understandable reasons) or any of the works of the good old Marquis de Sade? How about Thomas More's Utopia?
So glad to see you supporting the careers of so many of history's debauchee literary creators, lilithcat. I sense there may be a much darker side to you! ... I don't think it's odd that his Utopia contains religious tolerance. The book itself is about the faults of an utopia, and he easily could have envisioned religious tolerance as a problem.
Bookishbunny - I hear what you're saying. I think reading some of More's writings, especially when he was ... ... that if the protestants would destroy everything, hence his strong arm tactics against them. What is odd is that his Utopia envisages (almost) complete religious tolerance.
I have heard the communist link to More before but that is not unusual. Most utopias, by their nature, tend to ... ... through the boxes during restocking. Picked up
The Prince and the Pauper
The Way We Live Now
Nana
Candide
Utopia
Wives and Daughters
Scaramouche
The Four Feathers
Tarzan of the Apes
Moll Flanders
Pere Goriot
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Agnes Grey
The Man ... Sir Thomas More's Utopia is online here, for anyone interested in going back to the inspiration (dys-inspiration?) for dystopian novels:
http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/more/utopia-I.html
I need to refresh my memory. I don't think I ever read the whole thing, just the excerpts ...
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