I was rather surprised as to how much of this work has stuck with me throughout the years. they, this one included, has very easy access. I have also found that the Kindle is ideal for reading these books as I make much use of the built in dictionaries and I can read these books in doable amounts without having hundreds of other books stacked around my.i.e. I must say I was delighted to find that many to most of the old books I wanted to reread are now available on Kindle and the price of these old classics is most certainly attractive. And I am glad I did and glad I have stared my reread project. I still lack much of the knowledge I now covet but do feel that I have gained somewhat in maturity and have undergone quite a number of attitude changes.Įgo I added Utopia to my list of books to reread, rethink and reconsider. As an individual who can now be classified as a geezer and well on my way into my dotage, I started wondering just what I had missed due to attitude, immaturity and a vast void of background knowledge. Over the past several years I have taken a trip back in time, so to speak, and revisited many, many works novels, histories, essays, et al, that I was ‘forced’ to read in school. The work seems to be an endless bookshelf filled with works that were.well, boring. Like many such works I was required to read at that time, I must admit that I was not overly enthusiastic about it simply another of the endless chores I ‘had’ to accomplish if I wanted to complete a particular course which of course I needed in order to graduate. I read this work in collage and that was over 40 years ago. Bottom line, if you are looking for a course text that will engage your students, keep shopping, because this edition will only frustrate them (and you, when you have to find another text of Utopia for them to read). But my students found it MUCH too hard to understand (and I have to admit, the Utopia text was even slow going for me), so I had to post an online version in more contemporary English for them to read, and the week's discussion was hijacked by this problem of the text. I'm a college instructor and I ordered this volume because it seemed to offer a good value for all three works. the use of "weal-public" alongside synonyms like commonweal, commonwealth, and republic), is simply too difficult and antiquated for most college students to understand and appreciate what is going on in this important text. In particular, the 1557 edition of More's Utopia, while a fascinating read from a historical perspective (e.g. However, this aspect makes it less than desirable for one major intended audience of Oxford Classics: students in college courses. This edition of More's Utopia (and Bacon, and Neville), is a valuable volume in one respect: it makes available historic early translations/editions of these three texts.
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