Poet pattern-designer environmentalist & maker of fine books William Morris (1834-96) was also a committed socialist & visionary writer obsessively concerned with the struggle to achieve a perfect society on earth News From Nowhere one of the most significant English works on the theme of utopia is the tale of William Guest a Victorian who wakes one morning to find himself in the year 2102 & discovers a society that has changed beyond recognition into a pastoral paradise in which all people live in blissful equality & contentment A socialist masterpiece News From Nowhere is a vision of a future free from capitalism isolation & industrialisation This volume also contains a wide selection of Morris's writings lectures journalism & letters which expand upon the key themes of News From Nowhere