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Utopia
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Utopia is a work of fiction and political philosophy by Thomas More published in 1516. More's imagining of Utopia presents a solution to many of the social ills discussed in the first part of the text, yet seems also to embody a rejection of More's own well-documented Catholic beliefs. The novel popularized the concept of Utopian societies in literary works, and can even be credited with the first introduction of the Greek term utopia into the English language. Utopia begins with written correspondence between Thomas More and several people he had met on the continent: Peter Giles, town clerk of Antwerp, and Jerome Busleiden, counselor to Charles V. More chose these letters, which are communications between actual people, to further the plausibility of his fictional land.
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