Utopia

Enduring lessons for leaders of any era Utopia is Thomas More's seminal work describing the classic idea of a "people's commonwealth". Considered an important work for anyone holding or aspiring to a leadership role, this story set the bar for a broad range fields, providing the societal model for both real and fictional settings. Although written in 1516 during the Reformation, its lessons retain great value today — while the word "utopia" itself has become a shorthand for "unrealistic", the actual framework described in the book presents a far more practical vision.

Foreword Preface Part 1 Introduction: More's Utopia in Historical Perspective 1 Texts 3 Contexts 26 Developments 51 Part 2 Utopia 81 Letter from Peter Giles to Hierome Buslide 202 A Meter of Four Verses 205 A Short Meter of Utopia 206 Gerard Noviomage of Utopia 206 Cornelius Graphey to the Reader 207 The Printer to the Reader 207 Ralph Robynson's Dedicatory Letter to William Cecil 209 Selected Bibliography 213 Index 225