News from Nowhere and Other Writings Paperback by William Morris; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Clive Wilmer
News from Nowhere and Other Writings Paperback by William Morris; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Clive Wilmer
Product Details
- Publisher: Penguin Classics (1994-01-04)
- Language: English
- Paperback: 480 pages
- ISBN-13: 9780140433302
- Item Weight: 328.86 grams
- Dimensions: 7.77 x 5.03 x 0.9 cm
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 livenow 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.
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