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Sir Thomas More actually wrote several books:

  • The Life of Pico della Mirandola (translated 1510)
  • History of King Richard III (1513-1518 unfinished)
  • Utopia (completed and published in 1516)
  • The Four Last Things (c. 1522)
  • Responsio ad Lutherum (completed and publish in 1523)
  • A Dialogue Concerning Heresies (1528)
  • The Supplication of Souls (1529)
  • The Confutation of Tyndale's Answer (1532)
  • Apology (1533)
  • Debellation of Salem and Bizance (1533)
  • Treatise on Blessed Sacrament against the Masker(1533)
  • A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation (1534)
  • A Treatise upon the Passion of Christ (1535)
  • The Sadness of Christ (1535)

In addition, More published a few poems:

  • A Rueful Lamentation, 1503
  • The Words of Fortune to the People, 1504
  • Pageant of Life, or "Pageant Verses", 1496-1504
  • A Merry Jest, 1516
  • To them who trust in Fortune
  • To them who seek Fortune
  • Two Short Ballads, or "Fortune Verses", 1535
  • Properties of a Lover, 1510
  • Rules of Spiritual Battle, 1510
  • Weapons of Spiritual Battle, 1510

More than 264 Latin epitaphs (some of the more popular are below):

  • Cunicula loquitur quae elapsa mustelae incidit in disposita venatorumetia
  • Venatus araneae.
  • In ridiculum iudicium.
  • In mortis diem omnibus incertum.
  • In hominis nativitatem.
  • In astrologum uxoris impudicae maritum.
  • Vita ipsa cursus ad mortem est.
  • De morte.
  • In furem et patronum.
  • In huius vitae vanitatem.
  • Ridiculum in Gelliam.
  • Ridiculum in ministrum.
  • Versus iambici dimetri brachycatalectici ad Candidum, qualis uxor deligenda.

    De puella quae raptum finxit.

  • Quis optimus reipublicae status.
  • De rege et rustico.
  • In puellam divaricatis tibiis equitantem.
  • De Hespero confitente.
  • Medicinae ad tollendos foetores anhelitus provenientes a cibis quibusdam.
  • Epitaphium in sepulchro Iohannae olim uxoris Mori, destinantis idem sepulchrum et sibi et Aliciae posteriori uxori.
  • Gratulatur quod eam repperit incolumem quam olim ferme puer amaverat.

    T. Morus Margaretae Elisabethae Caeciliae ac Ioanni dulcissimis liberis S.P.

Instructions and Prayers

  • A Godly Instruction, 1534
  • A Godly Meditation, 1534
  • A Devout Prayer (before dying), 1535
  • Prayers from the Treatise on the Passion 1534

A fair number of letter that are available for reading.

His own epitaph.

And the speech he read at his trial, after which he was found guilty of treason and beheaded.

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