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News from Nowhere
novel by Morris
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- News from Nowhere; or, An Epoch of Rest, Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance
News from Nowhere, prose work by William Morris, published serially in The Commonweal in 1890 and as a book later the same year. Most of the work consists of a vision of England in the year 2090 presented as a dream of William Guest, a thin disguise for Morris himself. Poverty, misery, and the ugliness of factories have vanished, along with money, the legal system, and government itself; labour, art, and nature are ennobled. Those improvements prove to have been brought about by a violent socialist revolution. ...(100 of 87 words)