Utopia

Robert M. Adam's popular translation of Utopia has been meticulously revised for this Second Norton Critical Edition as have the accompanying annotations. "Backgrounds" includes three new selections - from Saint Benedict, from a medieval satire on the Land of Cockayne, and from Tasso. "The Humanist Circle," a carefully chosen selection of letters, includes another important contribution by Erasmus. The "Backgrounds" section was assembled with the intention of helping student readers appreciate Utopia in light of different contemporary points of view.

"Criticism" includes five new thought-provoking essays by Alistair Fox, Edward L. Surtz, G.R. Elton, Northrop Frye, and Robert M. Adams. Also new are selections from two modern anti-utopias or quasi-utopias - Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and B.F. Skinner's Walden Two - plus a selection from Edward Bellamy's once futuristic but now almost contemporary Looking Backward, which may be compared and contrasted with More's masterpiece. The Selected Biography has been thoroughly updated.