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Morris: News from Nowhere

Morris: News from Nowhere

Morris: News from Nowhere

William Morris
Krishan Kumar, University of Kent, Canterbury
April 1995
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    News from Nowhere (1890), William Morris' most famous work, is a utopian picture of a future communist society, depicting a world in which capitalism has been abolished by a workers' revolution, and in which nature and society have become beautiful habitations for humanity. In an era that has seen the collapse of state socialism, Morris' damning critique of this conception, and his positing of a powerful alternative, are compelling reasons for paying attention to this classic of British socialism.

    • New edition of a classic of British socialism
    • Distils many of Morris's leading ideas on politics, art and society
    • Provides more detailed interpretative notes than previous editions

    Product details

    April 1995
    Paperback
    9780521422338
    264 pages
    216 × 136 × 20 mm
    0.364kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • 1. Discussion and bed
    • 2. A morning bath
    • 3. The guest house and breakfast therein
    • 4. A market by the way
    • 5. Children on the road
    • 6. A little shopping
    • 7. Trafalgar Square
    • 8. An old friend
    • 9. Concerning love
    • 10. Questions and answers
    • 11. Concerning government
    • 12. Concerning the arrangement of life
    • 13. Concerning politics
    • 14. How matters are managed
    • 15. On the lack of incentive to labour in a communist society
    • 16. Dinner in the hall of the Bloomsbury market
    • 17. How the change came
    • 18. The beginning of the new life
    • 19. The drive back to Hammersmith
    • 20. The Hammersmith guest house again
    • 21. Going up the river
    • 22. Hampton Court, and a praiser of past times
    • 23. An early morning by Runnymede
    • 24. Up the Thames
    • 25. The third day on the Thames
    • 26. The Obstinate Refusers
    • 27. The upper waters
    • 28. The little river
    • 29. A resting-place on the upper Thames
    • 30. The journey's end
    • 31. An old house amongst new folk
    • 32. The feast's beginning - the end.
    • William Morris
    • Editor
    • Krishan Kumar , University of Virginia