William Morris

News from Nowhere and Other Writings

Herausgegeben:Wilmer, Clive;Mitarbeit:Wilmer, Clive

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

William Morris was a dreamer with a genius for turning dreams into reality. Self-taught in 13 different crafts, some of them ancient, he became a great European pattern-designer. This volume illustrates the variety of Morris's prose, while focusing on the theme of earthly paradise.

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Produktdetails

• Penguin Classics
• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 41139
• Rev. Ed.
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 130mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 332g
• ISBN-13: 9780140433302
• ISBN-10: 0140433309
• Artikelnr.: 21634800

Autorenporträt

William Morris

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chronology
Bibliographical Note
Romance
The Story of the Unknown Church
A King's Lesson
Two Extracts from A Dream of John Ball
News from Nowhere
Lectures
The Lesser Arts
Some Hints on Pattern-designing
Useful Work versus Useless Toil
The Hopes of Civilization
Gothic Architecture
Occasional Prose
"Looking Backward": a review of Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy
Under an Elm-tree; or, Thoughts in the Countryside
Preface to The Nature of Gothic by John Ruskin
Foreword to Utopia by Sir Thomas More
How I Became a Socialist
A Note by William Morris on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press
Letters
[The Eastern Question]: letter to the Daily News
[Anti-Scrape]: letter to the Athenaeum
[St. Mark's, Venice]: letter to the Daily News
Notes