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Thomas More's slender, sly book coined a word and launched a whole tradition of imagining better worlds.

At a glance A traveller describes an island commonwealth with no private property, sparking debate… A learned traveller, newly returned from voyages to the edge of the known world, sits… With that conceit Thomas More gave a name to humankind's oldest political dream and… The book is short, but it is dense with argument, mischief, and quiet provocation, and…