News from Nowhere and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (722 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0140433309 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 480 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-19 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Five Stars BOK H had to get for a classgood read!. Artist and Socialist Yes, I mean that with a capital S. The title story, "News from Nowhere", is a Socialist Utopia like Bellamy's "Looking Backward." In fact, Morris wrote an intro to Bellamy's brief book, and criticized it (gently) for not going far enough.Morris' view of that happy future occupies about half of this thick compilation. It is an incredible Eden, where hale, hearty, and lovely people swing into everything with the greatest gusto. Morris' c. A Customer said William Morris' salutary alternative to industrial dystopia. This edition focuses primarily upon William Morris' influential utopian romance News from Nowhere, and contains some useful notes for the reading of the text together with several other of his pieces relating to the themes of Earthly Paradise, the arts and crafts and the nature of work.If News from Nowhere seems unfamiliar to most people now, it is perhaps not so much due to its age than to the many successful novels written since that
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. . William Morris was a dreamer with a genius for turning dreams into reality
Exhilaratingly, it reminds us that nothing is inevitable about the way we live—now or in 1890.. The "Nowhere" of News from Nowhere (1890) is England in 2102, an ideal pastoral society born out of revolution. This volume illustrates the variety of William Morris's prose, while focusing on one theme: the earthly paradise. It is as compelling a dream of the future as the nightmares of Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four
. 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