![]() ![]() ![]() One evening, after a public Socialist League meeting and political discussion, the narrator, William Guest, rides a train home to Hammersmith, a suburb of London. The novel has been canonized for its compelling fusion of Marxism and the romantic literary tradition, casting the narrator as an almost fantastical figure uprooted from his original context in Victorian England. Primarily an agricultural society, it works seamlessly due to its people’s investment in the natural world, which gives them intrinsic meaning in their work. The utopia is devoid of private property, lacking dense urban areas and centralized authority, as well as financial systems, courts, jails, classes, and social institutions, such as divorce. He witnesses the success of certain features of socialism, including common ownership of resources and the shared control of the means of production. News from Nowhere (1890), a political novel by writer, translator, and activist William Morris, is told by a socialist, William Guest, who waking up after a Socialist League meeting, finds himself in a utopian future world where socialism has taken hold. ![]()
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