Author: William Morris Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0141927429 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 480
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Poet, pattern-designer, environmentalist and maker of fine books, William Morris (1834-96) was also a committed socialist and visionary writer, obsessively concerned with the struggle to achieve a perfect society on earth. News From Nowhere, one of the most significant English works on the theme of utopia, is the tale of William Guest, a Victorian who wakes one morning to find himself in the year 2102 and discovers a society that has changed beyond recognition into a pastoral paradise, in which all people live in blissful equality and contentment. A socialist masterpiece, News From Nowhere is a vision of a future free from capitalism, isolation and industrialisation. This volume also contains a wide selection of Morris's writings, lectures, journalism and letters, which expand upon the key themes of News From Nowhere.
Author: William Morris Publisher: Penguin Classics ISBN: 9780140433302 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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This volume illustrates the variety of William Morris's prose, while focusing on one theme: the earthly paradise. The "Nowhere" of News from Nowhere (1890) is England in 2102, an ideal pastoral society born out of revolution. It is as compelling a dream of the future as the nightmares of Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Exhilaratingly, it reminds us that nothing is inevitable about the way we live—now or in 1890.
Author: William Morris Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486143198 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 228
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One of the most literary of utopian fantasies, this 1890 novel distills the author's attitudes toward politics, art, and society. A resonant critique of state socialism, it offers remarkably modern proposals for an alternative, idyllic society.
Author: William Morris Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 200
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This book from the pioneer of the utopian genre presents a vision of the future through the eyes of the 19th-century socialist. It describes the encounter between a visitor from the nineteenth century, William Guest, and a decentralized and humane future.
Author: William Morris Publisher: ISBN: 9781070890975 Category : Languages : en Pages : 192
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News from Nowhere (1890) is a classic work combining utopian socialism and soft science fiction written by the artist, designer and socialist pioneer William Morris. In the book, the narrator, William Guest, falls asleep after returning from a meeting of the Socialist League and awakes to find himself in a future society based on common ownership and democratic control of the means of production. In this society there is no private property, no big cities, no authority, no monetary system, no divorce, no courts, no prisons, and no class systems. This agrarian society functions simply because the people find pleasure in nature, and therefore they find pleasure in their work.The book explores a number of aspects of this society, including its organisation and the relationships which it engenders between people.
Author: William Morris Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781545596456 Category : Languages : en Pages : 210
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News from Nowhere (1890) is a classic work combining utopian socialism and soft science fiction written by the artist, designer and socialist pioneer William Morris. It was first published in serial form in the Commonweal journal beginning on 11 January 1890. In the novel, the narrator, William Guest, falls asleep after returning from a meeting of the Socialist League and awakes to find himself in a future society based on common ownership and democratic control of the means of production.
Author: William Morris Publisher: Wentworth Press ISBN: 9780530534596 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 244
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