News from Nowhere And Other Writings

Informationen zum Autor William Morris Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung William Morris was a dreamer with a genius for turning dreams into reality. Self-taught in 13 different crafts, some of them ancient, he became a great European pattern-designer. This volume illustrates the variety of Morris's prose, while focusing on the theme of earthly paradise. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chronology Bibliographical Note Romance The Story of the Unknown Church A King's Lesson Two 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 Notes