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9780140433302

News from Nowhere and Other Writings

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  • ISBN13:

    9780140433302

  • ISBN10:

    0140433309

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1994-01-04
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics

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Summary

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 Biography

William Morris was a dreamer with a genius for turning dreams into reality. Self-taught in thirteen different crafts, some of them ancient ones that had died out, he became the greatest European pattern-designer since the Middle Ages. He was, besides, a campaigning socialist and a pioneering environmentalist, a lyric poet and a forceful journalist, a storyteller and a maker of fine books.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix
Chronology xliii
Bibliographical Note xlix
ROMANCE
The Story of the Unknown Church
3(12)
A King's Lesson
15(8)
Two Extracts from A Dream of John Ball
23(18)
News from Nowhere
41(190)
LECTURES
The Lesser Arts
231(24)
Some Hints on Pattern-designing
255(30)
Useful Work versus Useless Toil
285(22)
The Hopes of Civilization
307(22)
Gothic Architecture
329(22)
OCCASIONAL PROSE
`Looking Backward': a review of Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy
351(8)
Under an Elm-tree; or, Thoughts in the Countryside
359(6)
Preface to The Nature of Gothic by John Ruskin
365(6)
Foreword to Utopia by Sir Thomas More
371(6)
How I Became a Socialist
377(8)
A Note by William Morris on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press
385(8)
LETTERS
[The Eastern Question]: letter to the Daily News
393(6)
[Anti-Scrape]: letter to the Athenaeum
399(4)
[St Mark's, Venice]: letter to the Daily News
403(4)
Notes 407

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