NEWS FROM NOWHERE, OR, AN EPOCH OF REST IBD

Sinopse

William Morris was born in 1834, the son of a successful London businessman.á At Oxford, under the influence of Edward Burne-Jones, he decided to devote his life to Art.á An important member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, he excelled at a huge range of skills including architecture, painting, poetry, weaving, dyeing, and book-making.á His political life was equally diverse, moving gradually &lsquo,leftwards&rsquo, until, by 1883, he had become a convinced socialist.&lsquo,News from Nowhere&rsquo,&rsquo, is a Utopian fantasy that explores his socialist vision: a man wakes to find himself in a futuristic England that has fully embraced the concept of &lsquo,Commonwealth&rsquo,.á Government, cash, schools and prisons no longer exist, industrial pollution has vanished, and both men and women are free and equal.á Interestingly, the book emphasizes the original meaning of Utopia as &lsquo,Nowhere&rsquo,, suggesting Morris regarded his vision as an unrealizable dream, though one to which he believed all should aspire.á