News from Nowhere and Other Writings
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Poet, pattern-designer, environmentalist and maker of fine books, William Morris (1834-96) was also a committed socialist and visionary writer, obsessively concerned with the struggle to achieve a perfect society on earth. News From Nowhere, one of the most significant English works on the theme of utopia, is the tale of William Guest, a Victorian who wakes one morning to find himself in the year 2102 and discovers a society that has changed beyond recognition into a pastoral paradise, in which all people live in blissful equality and contentment. A socialist masterpiece, News From Nowhere is a vision of a future free from capitalism, isolation and industrialisation. This volume also contains a wide selection of Morris's writings, lectures, journalism and letters, which expand upon the key themes of News From Nowhere.
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William Morris (1834-1896) was one of the most influential thinkers and artists of his time. At Oxford, with the painter Burne-Jones, he fell under the influence of Ruskin and Rossetti. Preoccupied with the poverty of modern design he taught himself at least thirteen crafts and founded his own design firm, Morris & Co. In the late 1870s he became active in political and environmentalist matters and converted to socialism in 1883, helping to found the Socialist League a year later. Clive Wilmer read English at King's College, Cambridge. He also edited Ruskin and Rossetti for the Penguin Classics, and has translated poetry from several languages.
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I was the master-mason of a church that was built more than six hundred years ago; it is now two hundred years since that church vanished from the face of the earth; it was destroyed utterly, - no fragment of it was left; not even the great pillars that bore up the tower at the cross, where the choir used to join the nave. Lire la première page
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I was the master-mason of a church that was built more than six hundred years ago; it is now two hundred years since that church vanished from the face of the earth; it was destroyed utterly, - no fragment of it was left; not even the great pillars that bore up the tower at the cross, where the choir used to join the nave. Lire la première page
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Superb artist and the first Socialist in Great Britain 1850ish,
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A prophetic book. He forecast not only a truly human society but also prophecied the calamitous ecological tragedy we are now living in. He started the first socialist party in Britain, the SPGB, who have always been saying the monetary system should be abolished, and look what's happened. At last we can install real values, instead of greed and power based crime. To find out more, read it,but don't forget to Google his creative work: stained glass windows, tapestries, furniture.
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