News from Nowhere

Synopsis

'the only english utopia since more's that deserves to be remembered as literature. 'news from nowhere (1890) is the best-known prose work of william morris. The novel describes the encounter between a visitor from the nineteenth century, william guest, and a decentralized and humane socialist future. Set over a century after a revolutionary upheaval in 1952, these 'chapters from a utopian romance' recount his journey across london and up the thames to kelmscott manor, morris's own country house in oxfordshire.