News from Nowhere and Other Writings
by Morris, WilliamFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1994-01-04
Publisher(s): 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 | |||||
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3 | (12) | |||
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15 | (8) | |||
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23 | (18) | |||
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41 | (190) | |||
| LECTURES | |||||
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231 | (24) | |||
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255 | (30) | |||
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285 | (22) | |||
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307 | (22) | |||
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329 | (22) | |||
| OCCASIONAL PROSE | |||||
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351 | (8) | |||
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359 | (6) | |||
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365 | (6) | |||
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371 | (6) | |||
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377 | (8) | |||
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385 | (8) | |||
| LETTERS | |||||
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393 | (6) | |||
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399 | (4) | |||
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403 | (4) | |||
| Notes | 407 |
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