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News from Nowhere is a utopian socialist novel by William Morris, published in 1890. It depicts a future society based on common ownership, democratic control, and pleasure in work and nature.
- William Morris
- 1890
- DISCUSSION AND BED. Up at the League, says a friend, there had been one night a brisk conversational discussion, as to what would happen on the Morrow of the Revolution, finally shading off into a vigorous statement by various friends of their views on the future of the fully-developed new society.
- A MORNING BATH. Well, I awoke, and found that I had kicked my bedclothes off; and no wonder, for it was hot and the sun shining brightly. I jumped up and washed and hurried on my clothes, but in a hazy and half-awake condition, as if I had slept for a long, long while, and could not shake off the weight of slumber.
- THE GUEST HOUSE AND BREAKFAST THEREIN. I lingered a little behind the others to have a stare at this house, which, as I have told you, stood on the site of my old dwelling.
- A MARKET BY THE WAY. We turned away from the river at once, and were soon in the main road that runs through Hammersmith. But I should have had no guess as to where I was, if I had not started from the waterside; for King Street was gone, and the highway ran through wide sunny meadows and garden-like tillage.
Learn about News from Nowhere, a prose work by William Morris that depicts a vision of England in the year 2090 after a socialist revolution. Explore the themes, style, and historical context of this influential utopian romance.
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News from Nowhere (1890) is the best-known prose work of William Morris and the only significant English utopia to be written since Thomas More's. The novel describes the encounter between a visitor from the nineteenth century, William Guest, and a decentralized and humane socialist future.
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Jun 1, 2002 · A classic utopian novel by the English writer and socialist William Morris. The book depicts a future society where capitalism and class struggle have been abolished and people live in harmony with nature.
One of the most literary and readable of utopian novels, News from Nowhere chronicles the impressions of a nineteenth-century visitor to the twenty-second...
Oct 11, 2002 · A utopian novel by William Morris, a socialist and artist, depicting a future society without oppression or misery. The book includes essays, reviews, and excerpts from other utopian texts to provide historical and literary context.
