News From Nowhere
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
9357273719
ISBN-13
9789357273718
Publisher
Double 9 Books
Imprint
Double 9 Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 1st, 2022
Weight
218 grams
Dimensions
21.40 x 13.90 x 1.30 cms
Product Classification:
Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
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The famous novel News from Nowhere (1890), written by socialist pioneer and artist William Morris, combines utopian socialism and soft science fiction. Starting on January 11, 1890, it was first serialized in the Commonweal newspaper. In the story, William Guest, the narrator, falls asleep on the way home from a Socialist League meeting and wakes up in a world where the means of production are owned by everyone and democratically controlled. This society lacks private property, large cities, authority, a monetary system, marriage and divorce, courts, jails, and class structures. The only reason this agrarian culture is able to function is that people enjoy being in nature and consequently enjoy what they do. The structure of this civilization as well as the interpersonal interactions it fosters are some of the topics covered in the book. When Morris presents himself as an enchanted character in a period and place other than Victorian England, he combines Marxism and the romance genre. Morris, the romance character, runs into romance archetypes dressed in Marxist garb as he searches for love and camaraderie and, through them, a reborn self. Old Hammond is the sage of romance as well as the communist teacher who introduces the modern world to Morris.
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