News from Nowhere
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- 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.
From the opening pages
Up at the League, says a friend, there had been one night a brisk conversational discussion, as to what would happen on the Morrow of the Revolution, finally shading off into a vigorous statement by various friends of their views on the future of the fully-developed new society.
Says our friend: Considering the subject, the discussion was good-tempered; for those present being used to public meetings and after-lecture debates, if they did not listen to each others’ opinions (which could scarcely be expected of them), at all events did not always attempt to speak all together, as is the custom of people in ordinary polite society when conversing on a subject which interests them. For the rest, there were six persons present, and consequently six sections of the party were represented, four of which had strong but divergent Anarchist opinions. One of the sections, says our friend, a man whom he knows very well indeed, sat almost silent at the beginning of the discussion, but at last got drawn into it, and finished by roaring out very loud, and damning all the rest for fools; after which befel a period of noise, and then a lull, during which the aforesaid section, having said good-night very amicably, took his way home by himself to a western suburb, using the means of travelling which civilisation has forced upon us like a habit. As he sat in that vapour-bath of hurried and discontented humanity, a carriage of the underground railway, he, like others, stewed discontentedly, while in self-reproachful mood he turned over the many excellent and conclusive arguments which, though they lay at his fingers’ ends, he had forgotten in the just past discussion. But this frame of mind he was so used to, that it didn’t last him long, and after a brief discomfort, caused by disgust with himself for having lost his temper (which he was also well used to), he found himself musing on the subject-matter of discussion, but still discontentedly and unhappily. “If I could but see a day of it,” he said to himself; “if I could but see it!”
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Book facts
- Author
- William Morris
- First published
- 1890
- Reading time
- About 6 hours
- Pages
- 214
- Language
- English
- Genre
- British Classics
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
- Audio read by
- Elizabeth Klett