News from Nowhere; Or, An Epoch of Rest by William Morris

"News from Nowhere; Or, An Epoch of Rest" by William Morris is a novel published in 1890. When the narrator falls asleep after a Socialist League meeting, he awakens in a transformed future society without private property, money, government, or class divisions. Morris envisions a world where work becomes pleasurable and creative, blending seamlessly with art and life. Written as a libertarian socialist response to Edward Bellamy's industrialized utopia, the novel explores how this reimagined society organizes itself through common ownership and democratic control of production. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Morris, William, 1834-1896
Title News from Nowhere; Or, An Epoch of Rest
Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_from_Nowhere
Credits Transcribed from the 1908 Longmans, Green, and Co. edition by David Price
Reading Level Reading ease score: 66.8 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Language English
LoC Class HX: Social sciences: Socialism, Communism, Anarchism
Subject Utopias
Category Text
eBook-No. 3261
Release Date
Last Update Apr 20, 2020
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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