News from Nowhere: (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): Or, an Epoch of Rest, Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781411455108 (141145510X)
Publish date: June 7th 2011
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Pages no: 258
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
Speculative Fiction,
Politics,
Philosophy,
19th Century,
Dystopia,
Utopia
I heard "News from Nowhere" described as a socialist utopian romance, and while it's definitely all of those things it's also super dull and patronising. The main action so far has been the main character, William Guest (DO YOU SEE) wandering around Future London, which has been transformed into a c...
A Victorian gentleman named Guest is mysteriously transported forward in time to a society less futuristic than one might expect. A utopia of environmental purity, personal freedom, and peace, it is characterized by small communities of rural artisans modeled after Morris' idealized conception of me...