News from Nowhere

By: William Morris

Narrated by: Andrew Wincott

Although William Morris is known primarily as a designer, he was also a writer of poetry and prose. The novel News from Nowhere (subtitled An Epoch of Rest Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance) is his best-known prose work and describes a humane socialist future as experienced by William Guest, who is transplanted there from the 19th century. Set in London and Oxfordshire, the novel takes place in 2090, over a century after a revolutionary upheaval. It remains a distinctive literary contribution to the concept of the utopian ideal.

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Fun Read!

I was assigned this for a Victorian Literature class and I had an unexpectadly good time! The book gets a little exposition-dialogue heavy at one point (you’ll know when) but overall it was a fascinating look at one of the first “utopian” books in history!