News from Nowhere and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)

Type

Book

Authors

William Morris

ISBN 13

9780140433302

Tags

Satire, Metaphysical & Visionary, Victorian, Anthologies, Short Stories, European, United States, Social Sciences, English Literature

Description

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. - from Amzon

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