News from Nowhere or An Epoch of Rest - Couverture souple

Morris, William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0486434273 ISBN 13 : 9780486434278

Editeur : Dover Publications Inc., 2004

Synopsis

One of the most literary and readable of utopian novels, News from Nowhere chronicles the impressions of a nineteenth-century visitor to the twenty-second century, who finds England transformed into a socialist paradise. Morris' idyllic society echoes themes from the writings of Ruskin and Marx but forms a distinctive expression of the author's own egalitarian views. A distillation of Morris' mature reflections on politics, art and society, this work was regarded as an exercise in sentimentality upon its 1890 publication. Modern readers, however, are likely to find resonance in its critique of state socialism and its proposals for an alternative society.

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The best-known prose work of William Morris, News from Nowhere ranks among the most literary and readable of utopian novels. The great English artist, writer, and political activist offers a compelling portrait of an ideal society in his chronicle of a nineteenth-century man's visit to the future. William Guest, a thinly disguised version of Morris himself, falls asleep in his own era and wakes in the twenty second century to find England transformed into a socialist paradise.

Morris' idyllic society echoes themes from the writings of John Ruskin and Karl Marx but forms a distinctive expression of the author's own egalitarian views. His vision of the future rejects state socialism in favor of a system by which people live in harmony with the natural world. Capitalism bas been eradicated by a workers' revolution, property is communal, and money unnecessary. The citizens take pleasure in their work, which they regard as a form of creative expression. Crime is virtually nonexistent in their perfect world, and women enjoy complete equality.

A distillation of Morris' mature reflections on politics, art, and society, News from Nowhere was regarded as an exercise in sentimentality upon its 1890 publication. Modern readers, however, are likely to find resonance in its critique of state socialism and its proposais for an alternative society.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dover Publications Inc.
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0486434273
• ISBN 13: 9780486434278
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
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