Thomas More
Born
in London, England
December 15, 1477
Died
May 07, 1535
Genre
Influences
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Utopia
2953 editions
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published
1516
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Three Early Modern Utopias: Utopia / New Atlantis / The Isle of Pines
by
15 editions
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published
1999
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Utopia with Erasmus's The Sileni of Alcibiades
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The History of King Richard III
by
78 editions
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published
1518
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A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation
122 editions
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published
1534
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The Sadness of Christ and Final Prayers and Benedictions
by
2 editions
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published
1535
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The Sadness of Christ
34 editions
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published
1535
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The Last Letters of Thomas More
by
17 editions
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published
1970
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Utopías del Renacimiento
by
6 editions
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published
1973
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Four Last Things / The Supplication of Souls / A Dialogue on Conscience
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2002
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“For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.”
― Utopia
― Utopia
“A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.”
― Utopia
― Utopia
“[how can anyone] be silly enough to think himself better than other people, because his clothes are made of finer woolen thread than theirs. After all, those fine clothes were once worn by a sheep, and they never turned it into anything better than a sheep.”
― Utopia
― Utopia
Polls
September 2017 Old School Classic Poll
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome 1889, 184 pages
Hamlet by William Shakespeare 1600, 289 pages
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling 1894, 277 pages
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain 1889, 416 pages
Utopia by Thomas More 1516, 135 pages
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens 1839, 817 pages
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche 1883, 327 pages
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1774, 176 pages
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy 1895, 310 pages
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi 1883, 262 pages
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft 1790, 269 pages
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle 1883, 400 pages
Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant 1885, 416 pages
The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox 1752, 464 pages
East Lynne by Mrs. Henry Wood 1861, 694 pages
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