News from Nowhere
About this book
William Morris was highly eclectic: novelist, thinker, artist, politician, trend-setter in various subjects such as architecture, design, graphic and interior design. In this novel, which tones are strongly utopian, Morris tells us about a time and a place transformed not so much by ideology - Morris is a tireless defender of the British socialism - but by the desire of men to regain some of the dignity lost with the advent of the industrial era: for example, for people to spend together better quality time; doing work that is driven by the real needs of the people and not by the logic of profit; educate young people according to principles that go back to the natural development of things; focusing on personal relationships oriented on social acceptance and sharing.
Morris is also a firm believer in the recovery of manual labor and the ancient crafts. Not coincidentally he founded the company Arts and Crafts, still in business; its teachings are the basis of some recent Italian examples (Brunello Cucinelli identified Morris in reference to his School of Trades started in Solomeo). Rediscovering Morris and his News from Nowhere holds an important meaning: discovering an ideal of life close to the principles that were the cornerstones of the humanistics, reaffirming the value of man over things, taking care in the education of people through knowledge, following the example of the masters and expressing the love that sustains the beauty of "doing things".
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Table of contents
- Titolo pagina
- CHAPTER I: DISCUSSION AND BED
- CHAPTER II: A MORNING BATH
- CHAPTER III: THE GUEST HOUSE AND BREAKFAST THEREIN
- CHAPTER IV: A MARKET BY THE WAY
- CHAPTER V: CHILDREN ON THE ROAD
- CHAPTER VI: A LITTLE SHOPPING
- CHAPTER VII: TRAFALGAR SQUARE
- CHAPTER VIII: AN OLD FRIEND
- CHAPTER IX: CONCERNING LOVE
- CHAPTER X: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
- CHAPTER XI: CONCERNING GOVERNMENT
- CHAPTER XII: CONCERNING THE ARRANGEMENT OF LIFE
- CHAPTER XIII: CONCERNING POLITICS
- CHAPTER XIV: HOW MATTERS ARE MANAGED
- CHAPTER XV: ON THE LACK OF INCENTIVE TO LABOUR IN A COMMUNIST SOCIETY
- CHAPTER XVI: DINNER IN THE HALL OF THE BLOOMSBURY MARKET
- CHAPTER XVII: HOW THE CHANGE CAME
- CHAPTER XVIII: THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW LIFE
- CHAPTER XIX: THE DRIVE BACK TO HAMMERSMITH
- CHAPTER XX: THE HAMMERSMITH GUEST-HOUSE AGAIN
- CHAPTER XXI: GOING UP THE RIVER
- CHAPTER XXII: HAMPTON COURT AND A PRAISER OF PAST TIMES
- CHAPTER XXIII: AN EARLY MORNING BY RUNNYMEDE
- CHAPTER XXIV: UP THE THAMES: THE SECOND DAY
- CHAPTER XXV: THE THIRD DAY ON THE THAMES
- CHAPTER XXVI: THE OBSTINATE REFUSERS
- CHAPTER XXVII: THE UPPER WATERS
- CHAPTER XXVIII: THE LITTLE RIVER
- CHAPTER XXIX: A RESTING-PLACE ON THE UPPER THAMES
- CHAPTER XXX: THE JOURNEY’S END
- CHAPTER XXXI: AN OLD HOUSE AMONGST NEW FOLK
- CHAPTER XXXII: THE FEAST’S BEGINNING-THE END
- FOOTNOTES:
