News From Nowhere

News from Nowhere (1890) is the best-known prose work of William Morris. The novel describes the encounter between a visitor from the nineteenth century, William Guest, and a decentralized and humane socialist future. Set over a century after a revolutionary upheaval in 1952, these Chapters from a Utopian Romance recount his journey across London and up the Thames to Kelmscott Manor, Morriss own country house in Oxfordshire. Drawing on the work of John Ruskin and Karl Marx, Morriss book is not only an evocative statement of his egalitarian convictions but also a distinctive contribution to the utopian tradition. Morriss rejection of state socialism and his ambition to transform the relationship between humankind and the natural world, giveNews from Nowhere a particular resonance for modern readers.

The text is based on that of 1891, incorporating the extensive revisions made by Morris to the first edition.