William Morris 4 hr 16 min read

A man falls asleep after a socialist meeting and wakes in a future England transformed, a green, decentralized, joyful society where work is a pleasure and money has vanished.

William Morris's 1890 'News from Nowhere' is a landmark utopian romance, a beautiful vision of a pastoral, craft-based communism. Lyrical, humane, hugely influential. Read it for one of the loveliest of all utopias, Morris's dream of an England remade into an epoch of rest and delight.

In its time

Published in 1890, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

4 hr 16 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).