William Morris

The Well at the World's End was among the very first of its kind - it is an epic romance of duplicity, machination, passion, and wizardry, and is, in short, a vast odyssey into the weird. It is a beautifully rich fantasy, a vibrant fairy tale without fairies. It is the most entrancing of William Morris's late romances - part futuristic fantasy novel, part old-fashioned fairy tale. Morris writes his magic love story with a sense of color and pattern, and the sheer imaginative fervor of one of the most brilliant decorative artists that has ever lived. A Classic fantasy novel!

News From Nowhere Or An Epoch Of Rest: Being Some Chapters From A Utopian Romance is a novel written by William Morris. The book is set in the late 19th century and tells the story of a man named William Guest who falls asleep and wakes up in a utopian society in the year 2003. The society is based on the principles of socialism and equality, where everyone works for the common good and there is no private property or money. In this society, people are free to pursue their interests and passions, and there is no distinction between manual and intellectual labor. The environment is clean and beautiful, and people live in harmony with nature. The novel explores themes of social justice, environmentalism, and the importance of community. The book is divided into chapters, each of which explores a different aspect of this utopian society, such as education, art, and politics. Through the eyes of the protagonist, the reader is invited to imagine a world where people live in peace and harmony, free from the constraints of capitalism and industrialization. News From Nowhere Or An Epoch Of Rest is considered a classic of utopian literature and has been influential in shaping the ideas of socialists and environmentalists. It is a thought-provoking and inspiring book that challenges readers to imagine a better world and work towards making it a reality. This Is A New Release Of The Original 1905 Edition. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

William Morris (1834-1896) es una referencia obligada para la comprensi n de la cultura europea de finales del XIX, en parte porque supone la culminaci n del debate intelectual del periodo victoriano y en parte porque anticipa muchos de los temas que habr an de debatirse en la primera mitad del siglo XX, dentro y fuera de las vanguardias hist ricas. Igualmente alabado y criticado por ut pico y sentimental, la obra te rica de Morris, tal como aparece en la presente antolog a, supone uno de los primeros intentos de elaborar una pol tica cultural de la democratizaci n del arte en el contexto de la sociedad industrial. En particular, Morris denuncia la alienaci n del trabajador ante la introducci n de la m quina en los procesos productivos y defiende apasionadamente la naturaleza frente a los intereses econ micos, anticipando muchas de las ideas del socialismo y el ecologismo modernos. Adem s, su an lisis de la producci n de masas y su visi n igualitarista del acceso a los productos art sticos lo convierten en uno de los padres de la teor a y la pr ctica del dise o.

This is a high-quality edition of Hopes and Fears for Art, a series of William Morris lectures that first appeared in 1882. This is not a poor scan of an old book, but an all new, re-typeset and re-designed edition, with an attractive, Morris-inspired cover design that is appropriate to its historic subject.

This is a new edition of William Morris' The Art and Craft of Printing, retaining the original text (consisting primarily of lectures and essays on printing) and providing sample pages from examples printed by the Kelmscott Press. It is not a scan of an old book, but a new edition, with its design inspired by the views and ideas of William Morris. It includes an appendix with a brief Outline on the author.

An influential leader of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, John Ball paid the ultimate price for his outspoken support for the common people. He was hung, drawn and quartered in front of King Richard II on 15 July 1381, according to the "Christian" laws then practised. At the last major meeting of the Kentish rebels at Blackheath he preached his famous "communistic" sermon. "When Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then the Gentleman? From the beginning all men by nature were created alike, and our bondage or servitude came in by the unjust oppression of naughty men. For if God would have had any bondmen from the beginning, he would have appointed who should be bond, and who free. And therefore I exhort you to consider that now the time is come, appointed to us by God, in which ye may, if ye will, cast off the yoke of bondage, and recover liberty." William Morris in his Dream brings the past alive and takes us back to those heroic days when the labouring poor stood up against the ruling landed aristocracy.

William Morris is well-known as a textile designer but his friendship with Eleanor Marx and Frederick Engels tends to have been glossed over, as was his enthusiastic support for Marx's ideas on the question of Alienation resulting from mechanisation. This latter question finds expression in Morris's own ideas on the need to end the false division between craft and design and his belief that useful objects should be made to last and to be beautiful - as opposed to the capitalist concept of built-in obsolescene. News From Nowhere presents his vision of a future socialist society following a Revolution in Great Britain that condemns the Houses of Parliament to. ... Oh dear - it is probably as well if I leave you to find out for yourself dear reader. Published in support of the Working Class Movement Library in Salford.