News From Nowhere

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - Fantastic Fiction, Science Fiction

Authors: William Morris In Year : 1890

Book Language: English

Audiobook: News From Nowhere

Chapter 1, Discussion and Bed
Chapter 2, A Morning Bath
Chapter 3, The Guest House and Breakfast Therein
Chapter 4, A Market By the Way
Chapter 5, Children on the Road
Chapter 6, A Little Shopping
Chapter 7, Trafalgar Square
Chapter 8, An Old Friend
Chapter 9, Concerning Love
Chapter 10, Questions and Answers
Chapter 11, Concerning Government
Chapter 12, Concerning the Arrangement of Life
Chapter 13, Concerning Politics and Chapter 14, How Matters Are Arranged
Chapter 15, On the Lack of Incentive to Labour in a Communist Society
Chapter 16, Dinner in the Hall of Bloomsbury Market
Chapter 17, Part 1, How the Change Came
Chapter 17, Part 2, How the Change Came
Chapter 18, The Beginning of the New Life
Chapter 19, The Drive Back to Hammersmith
Chapter 20, The Hammersmith Guest House Again, and Chapter 21, Going Up the River
Chapter 22, Hampton Court and a Praiser of Past Times
Chapter 23, An Early Morning By Runnymede
Chapter 24, Up the Thames: The Second Day
Chapter 25, The Third Day on the Thames
Chapter 26, The Obstinate Refusers
Chapter 27, The Upper Waters
Chapter 28, The Little River
Chapter 29, A Resting-Place on the Upper Thames
Chapter 30, The Journey's End
Chapter 31, An Old House Amongst New Folk
Chapter 32, The Feast's Beginning - The End

News from Nowhere (1890) is a classic work combining utopian socialism and soft science fiction written by the artist, designer and socialist pioneer William Morris. In the book, the narrator, William Guest, falls asleep after returning from a meeting of the Socialist League and awakes to find himself in a future society based on common ownership and democratic control of the means of production. In this society there is no private property, no big cities, no authority, no monetary system, no divorce, no courts, no prisons, and no class systems. This agrarian society functions simply because the people find pleasure in nature, and therefore they find pleasure in their work. In the novel, Morris tackles one of the most common criticisms of socialism; the supposed lack of incentive to work in a communistic society. Morris' response is that all work should be creative and pleasurable. (Summary by Wikipedia)