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News from Nowhere; Or, An Epoch of Rest / Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance

William Morris

  • Fantasy
  • Book language: English
  • 196 pages

A utopian romance by William Morris, conceived as a vision of a future society. The narrator awakens in a transformed England without money or government, where people live close to nature. It is worth listening to for its imaginative blend of medieval and socialist ideals.

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Transcribed from the 1908 Longmans, Green, and Co. edition
by David Price, email [email protected]
NEWS FROM NOWHERE
or
AN EPOCH OF REST
being some chapters from
A UTOPIAN ROMANCE
by
WILLIAM MORRIS,
author of ‘the earthly paradise.’
TENTH IMPRESSION
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
NEW YORK, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA
1908
All rights reserved
First printed serially in the Commonweal, 1890.
Thence reprinted at Boston, Mass., 1890.
First English Edition, revised, Reeves & Turner, 1891.
Reprinted April, June 1891; March 1892.
Kelmscott Press Edition, 1892.
Since reprinted March 1895; January 1897; November 1899;
August 1902; July 1905; January 1907; and January 1908.

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Contents

  1. NEWS FROM NOWHERE or AN EPOCH OF REST being some chapters from A UTOPIAN ROMANCE
  2. CHAPTER I: DISCUSSION AND BED
  3. CHAPTER II: A MORNING BATH
  4. CHAPTER III: THE GUEST HOUSE AND BREAKFAST THEREIN
  5. CHAPTER IV: A MARKET BY THE WAY
  6. CHAPTER V: CHILDREN ON THE ROAD
  7. CHAPTER VI: A LITTLE SHOPPING
  8. CHAPTER VII: TRAFALGAR SQUARE
  9. CHAPTER VIII: AN OLD FRIEND
  10. CHAPTER IX: CONCERNING LOVE
  11. CHAPTER X: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
  12. CHAPTER XI: CONCERNING GOVERNMENT
  13. CHAPTER XII: CONCERNING THE ARRANGEMENT OF LIFE
  14. CHAPTER XIII: CONCERNING POLITICS
  15. CHAPTER XIV: HOW MATTERS ARE MANAGED
  16. CHAPTER XV: ON THE LACK OF INCENTIVE TO LABOUR IN A COMMUNIST SOCIETY
  17. CHAPTER XVI: DINNER IN THE HALL OF THE BLOOMSBURY MARKET
  18. CHAPTER XVII: HOW THE CHANGE CAME
  19. CHAPTER XVIII: THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW LIFE
  20. CHAPTER XIX: THE DRIVE BACK TO HAMMERSMITH
  21. CHAPTER XX: THE HAMMERSMITH GUEST-HOUSE AGAIN
  22. CHAPTER XXI: GOING UP THE RIVER
  23. CHAPTER XXII: HAMPTON COURT AND A PRAISER OF PAST TIMES
  24. CHAPTER XXIII: AN EARLY MORNING BY RUNNYMEDE
  25. CHAPTER XXIV: UP THE THAMES: THE SECOND DAY
  26. CHAPTER XXV: THE THIRD DAY ON THE THAMES
  27. CHAPTER XXVI: THE OBSTINATE REFUSERS
  28. CHAPTER XXVII: THE UPPER WATERS
  29. CHAPTER XXVIII: THE LITTLE RIVER
  30. CHAPTER XXIX: A RESTING-PLACE ON THE UPPER THAMES

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