News from Nowhere and Other Writings
News from Nowhere and Other Writings

Author: William Morris

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2004-12-02

Total Pages: 597

ISBN-13: 0141927429

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Poet, pattern-designer, environmentalist and maker of fine books, William Morris (1834-96) was also a committed socialist and 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 and discovers a society that has changed beyond recognition into a pastoral paradise, in which all people live in blissful equality and contentment. A socialist masterpiece, News From Nowhere is a vision of a future free from capitalism, isolation and industrialisation. This volume also contains a wide selection of Morris's writings, lectures, journalism and letters, which expand upon the key themes of News From Nowhere.

A Dream of John Ball by William Morris - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
A Dream of John Ball by William Morris - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

Author: William Morris

Publisher: Delphi Classics

Published: 2017-07-17

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 1788776933

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This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘A Dream of John Ball by William Morris - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of William Morris’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Morris includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘A Dream of John Ball by William Morris - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Morris’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles

Affective medievalism
Affective medievalism

Author: Thomas A. Prendergast

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2018-09-25

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 1526126885

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This book investigates the troubled relationship between medieval studies and medievalism. Acknowledging that the medieval and medievalism are mutually constitutive, and that their texts can be read using similar strategies, it argues that medieval writers offer powerful models for the ways in which contemporary desire determines the constitution of the past. This desire can not only connect us with the past but can reconnect readers in the present with the lost history of what may be called the ‘medievalism of the medievals’. In other words, to come to terms with the history of the medieval is to understand that it already offers us a model of how to relate to the past.

What Gunpowder Plot Was
What Gunpowder Plot Was

Author: Samuel Rawson Gardiner

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-04-25

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13:

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This work presents a history of The Gunpowder Plot of 1605. It was a failed assassination attempt of King James I by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby. They aimed to restore the Catholic monarchy to England after decades of persecution against Catholics. Contents include: Historical Evidence Guy Fawkes's Story The Later Documentary Evidence Structural Difficulties The Discovery The Government and the Catholics The Government and the Priests