News from Nowhere and Other Writings

William Morris (1834–96) a poet pattern designer anarchist socialist and creator of magnificent books was also a devout socialist and a visionary writer who was preoccupied with the fight for a just society on earth. The story of William Guest a Victorian who awakens one morning to find himself in the year 2102 and discovers a society that has changed beyond recognition into a pastoral paradise where all people live in blissful equality and contentment is told in News From Nowhere one of the most important English works on the theme of utopia. News From Nowhere is a socialist masterwork that offers a glimpse of a world without capitalism isolation or industrialization.