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News from Nowhere

First published: 1890
Pages: 214

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Chapter 1, Discussion and Bed
6:14
Chapter 2, A Morning Bath
16:53
Chapter 3, The Guest House and Breakfast Therein
19:20
Chapter 4, A Market By the Way
6:37
Chapter 5, Children on the Road
14:04
Chapter 6, A Little Shopping
14:55
Chapter 7, Trafalgar Square
15:21
Chapter 8, An Old Friend
7:32
Chapter 9, Concerning Love
24:03
Chapter 10, Questions and Answers
24:02
Chapter 11, Concerning Government
8:40
Chapter 12, Concerning the Arrangement of Life
11:23
Chapter 13, Concerning Politics and Chapter 14, How Matters Are Arranged
12:00
Chapter 15, On the Lack of Incentive to Labour in a Communist Society
18:03
Chapter 16, Dinner in the Hall of Bloomsbury Market
8:36
Chapter 17, Part 1, How the Change Came
31:11
Chapter 17, Part 2, How the Change Came
27:38
Chapter 18, The Beginning of the New Life
11:08
Chapter 19, The Drive Back to Hammersmith
11:00
Chapter 20, The Hammersmith Guest House Again, and Chapter 21, Going Up the River
9:13
Chapter 22, Hampton Court and a Praiser of Past Times
20:46
Chapter 23, An Early Morning By Runnymede
11:57
Chapter 24, Up the Thames: The Second Day
18:31
Chapter 25, The Third Day on the Thames
8:59
Chapter 26, The Obstinate Refusers
9:08
Chapter 27, The Upper Waters
22:33
Chapter 28, The Little River
8:22
Chapter 29, A Resting-Place on the Upper Thames
10:06
Chapter 30, The Journey's End
12:04
Chapter 31, An Old House Amongst New Folk
10:50
Chapter 32, The Feast's Beginning - The End
13:15

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About this book

Morris wrote this after a Socialist League meeting sent him home dreaming, and the book keeps that dream's logic. His narrator falls asleep and wakes in a future England where money, private property, prisons, and central government have all vanished. People live in a green, decentralized commonwealth, doing work they enjoy because it is craft rather than drudgery, and beauty has returned to ordinary life. Much of the story is a slow journey up the Thames, with long talks about how the great change came about. Written partly as a reply to the mechanized socialism of Edward Bellamy, it argues that a good society should feel like art, not a factory. Free to read here as a PDF and EPUB edition.

About the author

William Morris

William Morris (1834-1896) was an English poet, designer, and socialist whose wallpapers and textiles helped define the Arts and Crafts movement. Late in life he turned to prose romances set in imagined lands, and those books are now regarded as foundations of modern fantasy literature.