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.
Part 1 Romance: the story of the unknown Church; a King's lesson; two extracts from A Dream of John Ball ; News from Nowhere . Part 2 Lectures: the lesser arts; some hints on pattern-designing; useful work versus useless toil; the hopes of civilization. Part 3 Occasional prose: Looking Backward - a review of Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy; under an elm-tree, or, thoughts in the countryside; preface in The Nature of Gothic by John Ruskin; foreword to Utopia by Sir Thomas More; how I became a socialist; a note by William Morris on his aims in founding the Kelmscott Press. Part 4 Letters: [the Eastern question]: letter to the Daily News ; [anti-scrape]: letter to the Athenaeum ; [St Mark's, Venice]: letter to the Daily News .
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