What is Utopia (book)?
{{italictitle}} [[File:Utopia.ortelius.jpg|thumb|right|Map of Utopia by the map-maker [[Abraham Ortelius]].]] '''''Utopia''''' is the name of a [[book]]. [[Thomas More]] wrote it in 1516. He wrote it in [[Latin language|Latin]]. Its original title is '''''De Optimo Republicae Statu deque Nova Insula Utopia'''''. This is usually translated to ''On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia''. The book is about an [[island]] off the coast of [[South America]] with an imagined [[society]]. In the book, a visitor to this island tells about his trip there. According to him, Utopia has a system of laws that is perfect. Society there is also perfect. The political system is so good that nothing better can be thought out. Today, the word [[utopia]] is used to refer to a society that everyone wants to live in with perfect laws, but which is often hard to make. == Other websites == * [http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/diglib/more/utopia/ Digitally reconstructed edition of the book] * [http://www.mises.org/journals/scholar/Bostaph1.pdf A newer critical approach as to how to see the book (pdf)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061117141839/http://www.mises.org/journals/scholar/Bostaph1.pdf |date=2006-11-17 }} [[Category:English novels]] [[Category:16th-century books]]