One of the most literary and readable of utopian novels, News from Nowhere chronicles the impressions of a nineteenth-century visitor to the twenty-second century, who finds England transformed into a socialist paradise. Morris' idyllic society echoes themes from the writings of Ruskin and Marx but forms a distinctive expression of the author's own egalitarian views. A distillation of Morris' mature reflections on politics, art and society, this work was regarded as an exercise in sentimentality upon its 1890 publication. Modern readers, however, are likely to find resonance in its critique of state socialism and its proposals for an alternative society.

INTRODUCTORY NOTE: How I BECAME A SOCIALIST
I. DISCUSSION AND BED
II. A MORNING BATH
III. THE GUEST HOUSE AND BREAKFAST THEREIN
IV A MARKET BY THE WAY

V CHILDREN ON THE ROAD

VI. A LITTLE SHOPPING
VII. TRAFALGAR SQUARE
VIII. AN OLD FRIEND
IX. CONCERNING LOVE
X. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
XI. CONCERNING GOVERNMENT
XII. CONCERNING THE ARRANGEMENT OF LIFE
XIII. CONCERNING POLITICS
XIV How MATTERS ARE MANAGED

XV. ON THE LACK OF INCENTIVE TO LABOUR IN
A COMMUNIST SOCIETY
XVI. DINNER IN THE HALL OF THE BLOOMSBURY MARKET
XVII. How THE CHANGE CAME
XVIII. THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW LIFE
XIX. THE DRIVE BACK TO HAMMERSMITH
XX. THE HAMMERSMITH GUEST-HoUSE AGAIN
XXI. GOING UP THE RIVER
XXII. HAMPTON COURT AND A PRAISER OF PAST TIMES
XXIII. AN EARLY MORNING BY RUNNYMEDE
XXIV. Up THE THAMES: THE SECOND DAY
xxv. THE THIRD DAY ON THE THAMES
XXVI. THE OBSTINATE REFUSERS
XXVII. THE UPPER WATERS
XXVIII. THE LITTLE RIVER

XXIX. A RESTING-PLACE ON THE UPPER THAMES
XXX. THE JOURNEY'S END
XXXI. AN OLD HOUSE AMONGST NEW FOLK
XXXII. THE FEAST'S BEGINNING-THE END