News from Nowhere
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780192801777 (0192801775)
Publish date: April 1st 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 256
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...