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Reading News From Nowhere
Like many great books, William Morris’s News From Nowhere left me with several conflicting feelings. In a sense, it’s a science fiction novel. The author awakes in a future several hundred years distant from his own time in the 1800’s. He discovers a gentle society of friendly, calm people who go about their daily lives in peace and comfort. Each pursues his or her interests in trade for daily bread. […]