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Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Poet, designer, craftsman, environmentalist and maker of fine books, William Morris (1834-1896) was also a committed socialist, preoccupied with the struggle to achieve a perfect society on earth. Among the most important of English utopias, "News from Nowhere" is the tale of William Guest, a Victorian socialist. Guest wakes one morning to find himself in the year 2102 and discovers a society that has changed beyond recognition. The industrial squalor...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"William Morris (1834-1896) was an artist, craftsman, designer, poet, polymath, and visionary thinker. Well known for advocating that objects of beauty be accessible to all, Morris had a tremendous impact on the British Socialist movement, the Arts and Crafts movement, the Garden City movement, as well as on successive generations of artists and thinkers in Britain and beyond. In this fascinating book, Fiona MacCarthy examines Morris's vision of...