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Sir Thomas More, oil on panel by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1527; in the Frick Collection, New York City.
Thomas More’s famous work, Utopia, was first published in 1516.123
Originally written in Latin, the book introduced the term utopia—derived from the Greek for "no place"—to describe an imaginary, ideally organized state. By depicting a society governed by reason that lacks private property and emphasizes communal living, the work effectively launched the genre of utopian fiction.12