Between about 1513 and 1518, More wrote "The Chronicles of King Richard III" in English and Latin. This was the first masterpiece of British history. Although it was not completed, it was of great significance to future generations. Shakespeare's play "Richard III" was based on More's book and successfully created the image of a tyrant.

The book "Utopia" is More's immortal work. Its full name is "A Golden Book Concerning the Most Perfect State System and the New Island of Utopia, Both Useful and Interesting". It was written in 1515. It was written in Latin during his mission to Europe in 1516. The book describes the travels of a fictional navigator who sailed to a strange and exotic utopia. The word "Utopia" comes from the Greek word meaning "nowhere". More first used it to refer to a happy, ideal country. More said that "Utopia" is an island country in the southern hemisphere. There, the basis of society is public ownership of property, people are equal in terms of economic and political power, and the principle of distribution according to need is implemented. Citizens have no private property, change housing every ten years, wear uniform work clothes and citizen uniforms, eat in public restaurants, and each person takes turns working in the countryside for two years. Officials are elected by secret ballot, and positions are not hereditary. Residents can meet social needs by working for six hours a day, and engage in science, art, and intellectual game activities the rest of the time. There was no commodity-money relationship, and gold and silver were used to make toilet bowls. The Utopians also pursued policies of monogamy and religious freedom. More's conclusion is very clear: private ownership is the root of all evil. Private ownership makes "all the best things fall into the hands of the worst people, while the rest are impoverished." Therefore, "Only by completely abolishing the private system can wealth be distributed equally and fairly, and human beings can be well-being." Mo For the first time in the history of socialism, he raised the issue of abolishing private ownership and establishing public ownership.

More praised the sage system of the island country, but actually criticized the autocratic monarchy system of Europe, especially the Tudor dynasty of England. More was born in the era of primitive accumulation of capitalism. In his book "Utopia", he criticized the new capitalist relations and described the suffering of the people. He revealed the results of the enclosure movement with great excitement and said: "Your sheep were originally so tame and were satisfied with a little food. Now it is said that they have become very greedy and ferocious, and even want to eat people... The nobles there The gentry, even the bishops and saints... did not allow anyone to farm on the manor, and turned the entire land into pasture. The houses and towns were destroyed, leaving only the church as a sheepfold... The tenant farmers were evicted from the land. , their property was deprived of them through trickery or oppression. Sometimes they were tortured and had to sell their property. Those unfortunate people tried their best to leave their hometown... until they sold it in their wandering life. When all the money was spent, they could only steal and be punished by hanging, otherwise they would go from house to house begging for food. "Moore's famous saying "Sheep eat people" became a favorite line often quoted in folk songs at that time, and his pair of The detailed description of the enclosure movement became vivid material quoted by Marx when describing the barbaric method of capitalist primitive accumulation in Capital. Of course, at that time, More could not yet understand the historical status of capitalism, nor could he point out the real way to realize the ideal system. His utopia was just a utopia.