News from Nowhere, Or, an Epoch of Rest; Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance (Paperback)

from wirkman

Perhaps this is not a great work of literature. It is utopian, and it is on the conceived utopia that the book's merit rests. And Morris, a socialist with obvious agrarian anarchist leanings, convinced me (inadvertently) that anarcho-communism couldn't work. Still, I've a few fond memories of the...

from RandyStafford

My reactions to reading this novel in 1996. Spoilers follow. This book may very well have been on the Unabomber's bookshelf. This communistic, arts and crafts tyranny would appeal to the anti-technological Unabomber with his hand crafted bombs. Communism is the explicitly stated philosophy at wor...

from DanCook

Unconvincing fiction doth not an utopia make.

from john257hopper

Morris's work starts off promisingly with a contemporary (1890) man transported to an idyllic, initially seemingly Medieval London, which later turns out to be a pastoral, communist (in the original sense) world of sometime in the twenty first century or perhaps later. But this is not really a no...

from ohernaes

The narrator falls asleep and wakes up a couple of hundred years into the future. What he discovers is a socialist utopia supposedly without money ("extinct commercial morality"), property, poverty, crime, among other things. The sickness of idleness, not wanting to work, has been cured, so every...