News from nowhere and other writings

430 pages

English language

Published July 30, 1993 by Penguin Books.

ISBN:
978-0-14-043330-2
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OCLC Number:
29858341

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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.

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