دانلود کتاب News from nowhere, and other writings

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Introduction -- Chronology -- Romance. The story of the unknown church ; A king's lesson ; Two extracts from A dream of John Ball ; News from nowhere -- Lectures. The lesser arts ; Some hints on pattern-designing ; Useful work versus useless toil ; The hopes of civilization ; Gothic architecture -- Occasional prose. 'Looking backward' : a review of Looking backward by Edward Bellamy ; Under an elm-tree, or, Thoughts in the countryside ; Preface to The nature of gothic by John Ruskin ; Foreword to Utopia by Sir Thomas More ; How I became a socialist ; A note by William Morris on his aims in founding the Kelmscott Press -- Letters. [The Eastern question] : letter to the Daily news ; [Anti-scrape] : letter to the Athenaeum ; [St. Mark's, Venice] : letter to the Daily news.;Poet, pattern-designer, environmentalist and maker of fine books, William Morris (1834-96) was also a committed socialist and visionary writer, obsessively concerned with the struggle to achieve a perfect society on earth. News From Nowhere, one of the most significant English works on the theme of utopia, is the tale of William Guest, a Victorian who wakes one morning to find himself in the year 2102 and discovers a society that has changed beyond recognition into a pastoral paradise, in which all people live in blissful equality and contentment. A socialist masterpiece, News From Nowhere is a vision of a future free from capitalism, isolation and industrialisation. This volume also contains a wide selection of Morris's writings, lectures, journalism and letters, which expand upon the key themes of News From Nowhere. -- Product Description.