News from Nowhere: Or an Epoch of Rest, Being Some Chapters from a Utopian RomanceWilliam Morris is most famous for his textile design, but he was also a passionate and active socialist. News From Nowhere explores his socialist ideals in soft science-fiction. A man returns from a socialist meeting and falls into a sleep from which he wakes in a utopian, socialist future. |
Contents
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Chapter V Children on the Road | 41 |
Chapter VI A Little Shopping | 52 |
Chapter VII Trafalgar Square | 65 |
Chapter VIII An Old Friend | 77 |
Chapter XVIII The Beginning of the New Life | 203 |
Chapter XIX The Drive Back to Hammersmith | 211 |
Chapter XX The Hammersmith GuestHouse Again | 219 |
Chapter XXI Going Up the River | 222 |
Chapter XXII Hampton Court and a Praiser of Past Times | 226 |
Chapter XXIII An Early Morning by Runnymede | 241 |
The Second Day | 250 |
Chapter XXV The Third Day on the Thames | 263 |
Chapter IX Concerning Love | 83 |
Chapter X Questions and Answers | 100 |
Chapter XI Concerning Government | 118 |
Chapter XII Concerning the Arrangement of Life | 127 |
Chapter XIII Concerning Politics | 136 |
Chapter XIV How Matters Are Managed | 137 |
Chapter XV On the Lack of Incentive to Labour in a Communist Society | 146 |
Chapter XVI Dinner in the Hall of the Bloomsbury Market | 158 |
Chapter XVII How the Change Came | 165 |
Chapter XXVI The Obstinate Refusers | 270 |
Chapter XXVII The Upper Waters | 278 |
Chapter XXVIII The Little River | 294 |
Chapter XXIX A RestingPlace on the Upper Thames | 300 |
Chapter XXX The Journeys End | 307 |
Chapter XXXI An Old House Amongst New Folk | 316 |
Chapter XXXII The Feasts Beginning The End | 324 |
Endnotes | 334 |
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