Thomas More’s most famous literary work is Utopia (1516), which describes a pagan and communist city-state governed by reason. It contrasts with the European society of his time and discusses topics such as penology, education, and women’s rights. More coined the term utopia from the Greek ou-topos (“no place”), and his book virtually invented utopian literature.
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