News from Nowhere - Softcover

Morris, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1606641042 ISBN 13: 9781606641040

Publisher: Aegypan, 2008

Synopsis

This is England -- but an England none have ever seen, and perhaps none will ever see: for it is a country of the future, when the blights of poverty and inequity have been corrected and cured, and when the sky-blackening industries of the Modern Age have been transformed . . .

Morris may have had his greatest influence on English and American culture through his extraordinary designs for wallpaper, furniture, and books. Yet his written works have retained a persistent life as well, attracting readers generation after generation, who find in his poems and novels the same sensibility, the same intricate sense of design, and the same sense of form that they find in his aesthetic creations on paper and in wood.

He was in those days a genuine artist, a man of genius, and a revolutionist . . .

While those words from the utopian novel News from Nowhere describe a fictional character, they apply as well to its Herculean author, William Morris (1834-1896).

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Written in 1890, at the close of William Morris’s most intense period of political activism, News from Nowhere is a compelling articulation of his mature views on art, work, community, family, and the nature and structure of the ideal society. A utopian narrative of a future society, it is also an immensely entertaining novel.

This Broadview edition includes a wide variety of contextualizing documents, including portions of Morris’s essays, lectures, and journalism; excerpts from precursor utopian texts; writings on Bloody Sunday, art, work, and revolution; and contemporary reviews.

About the Author:

William Morris ( 1834 - 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, novelist, translator and socialist activist. Associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement, he was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production. His literary contributions helped to establish the modern fantasy genre, while he played a significant role in propagating the early socialist movement in Britain.

About this edition

• Publisher: Aegypan
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1606641042
• ISBN 13: 9781606641040
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176