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PublisherThames & Hudson

ISBN-100500519390

ISBN-139780500519394

eBay Product ID (ePID)234792189

Product Key Features

Book TitleNews from Nowhere

Number of Pages324 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2017

TopicGeneral, Utopias

IllustratorYes

GenrePolitical Science, Fiction

AuthorWilliam Morris

Book SeriesV&A Museum Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.5 in

Item Weight25.5 Oz

Item Length8.4 in

Item Width5.9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition21

Series Volume Number0

Dewey Decimal321/.07

SynopsisNews from Nowhere caused a stir with its unusual blend of utopian socialism and science fiction when it was first published in instalments in William Morris's socialist newspaper The Commonweal in 1890. The Kelmscott Press edition, printed in 1892 and reproduced in this facsimile edition, was a triumph of book design and making. After attending a Socialist League meeting and returning home to the London suburb of Hammersmith, narrator William Guest awakens the next day to find himself in the twenty-first century. Industrial buildings have been transformed into a pastoral paradise; civilians are dressed in fourteenth-century costume; there is an abundance of open-air markets and wooded areas and gardens; and money, prisons and divorce have been abolished. The bewildered but enchanted Guest embarks on a journey across London and up the Thames to Kelmscott Manor, during which he learns that England, now called 'Nowhere', has become a decentralized and humane socialist society following a revolutionary upheaval. Part utopia and part romance, News from Nowhere is William Morris's depiction of an ideal nation peopled with 'happy and lovely folk, who had cast away riches and attained to wealth.' In its appreciation that industrial capitalism has alienated us from the world we actually inhabit, News from Nowhere is as relevant today as when it was first published. The beautiful Kelmscott Press edition, like the narrative itself, embodies Morris's belief that art and beauty should be accessible to all., One fateful day narrator William Guest falls asleep after returning from a Socialist League meeting and awakes to find himself years in the future. This world is a socialist pastoral paradise in which capitalism, private property, and industry have been overthrown and where people live in equality and contentment. The book addresses the balance of work and reward, expressing Morris' idea that mastery could be replaced by fellowship. The first in a series of facsimile editions of collectible books from the National Art Library to be produced in partnership with the V&A, News from Nowhere is one of the most important English literary works on the theme of utopia. The novel, written by visionary English textile designer William Morris in 1890, is reproduced here for the first time in an accessible facsimile based on the original Kelmscott Press edition held in the collection of the V&A's National Art Library., The classic utopian novel from the visionary designer and socialist activist William Morris, re-created in an accessible facsimile edition

LC Classification NumberPR5079