News from Nowhere and Other Writings Author:William Morris, Clive Wilmer (Editor) 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 ... more »;Nineteen Eighty-Four. Exhilaratingly, it reminds us that nothing is inevitable about the way we live—now or in 1890.
Contents:
ROMANCE.
The story of the unknown church --
A King's lesson --
Tow extracts from A dream of John Ball --
News from nowhere --
LECTURES.
The lesser arts --
Some hints on pattern-designing --
Useful work versus useless toil --
The hopes of civilization --
Gothic architecture --
OCCASIONAL PROSE.
'Looking backward': a review of Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy --
Under an elm-tree; or, thoughts in the countryside --
Preface to The Nature of Gothic by John Ruskin --
Foreword to Utopia by Sir Thomas More --
How I became a Socialist --
A note by William Morris on his aims in founding the Kelmscott Press --
LETTERS.
[The Eastern Question]: letter to the Daily News --
[Anti-Scrape]: letter to the Athenaeum --
[St. Mark's, Venice]: letter to the Daily news.
Edited, introduction and notes by Clive Wilmer.« less