News from Nowhere: And Selected Writings and Designs - Softcover

Morris, William; Shankland, Graeme

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140431152 ISBN 13: 9780140431155

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1984

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0140431152
• ISBN 13: 9780140431155
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Briggs Asa