![]() (Summary by Wikipedia)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit . William Morriss utopian romance, News from No-where, was first published in thirty-nine weekly installments, between 11 January and 4 October 1890, in the Socialist League paper Commonweal.Morris was the editor of Commonweal and probably the chief financialsupport of the paper and the League itself. Morris' response is that all work should be creative and pleasurable. In the novel, Morris tackles one of the most common criticisms of socialism the supposed lack of incentive to work in a communistic society. This agrarian society functions simply because the people find pleasure in nature, and therefore they find pleasure in their work. ![]() In this society there is no private property, no big cities, no authority, no monetary system, no divorce, no courts, no prisons, and no class systems. ![]() In the book, the narrator, William Guest, falls asleep after returning from a meeting of the Socialist League and awakes to find himself in a future society based on common ownership and democratic control of the means of production. ![]() News from Nowhere (1890) is a classic work combining utopian socialism and soft science fiction written by the artist, designer and socialist pioneer William Morris. LibriVox recording of News From Nowhere by William Morris. ![]()
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