News from Nowhere: And Selected Writings and Designs (English Library)

Shankland, Graeme,Morris, William

ISBN 10: 0140431152 / ISBN 13: 9780140431155

Published by Penguin Classics, 1984

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: News from Nowhere: And Selected Writings and Designs (English Library)
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140431152
• ISBN 13: 9780140431155
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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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 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.