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William Morris. News from Nowhere (Dystopian Novel)
News from Nowhere (Dystopian Novel)
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Chapter I. Discussion and Bed
Chapter II. A Morning Bath
Chapter III. The Guest House and Breakfast Therein
Chapter IV. A Market by the Way
Chapter V. Children on the Road
Chapter VI. A Little Shopping
Chapter VII. Trafalgar Square
Chapter VIII. An Old Friend
Chapter IX. Concerning Love
Chapter X. Questions and Answers
Chapter XI. Concerning Government
Chapter XII. Concerning the Arrangement of Life
Chapter XIII. Concerning Politics
Chapter XIV. How Matters are Managed
Chapter XV. On the Lack of Incentive to Labour in a Communist Society
Chapter XVI. Dinner in the Hall of the Bloomsbury Market
Chapter XVII. How the Change Came
Chapter XVIII. The Beginning of the New Life
Chapter XIX. The Drive Back to Hammersmith
Chapter XX. The Hammersmith Guest-House Again
Chapter XXI. Going up the River
Chapter XXII. Hampton Court and a Praiser of Past Times
Chapter XXIII. An Early Morning by Runnymede
Chapter XXIV. Up the Thames: The Second Day
Chapter XXV. The Third Day on the Thames
Chapter XXVI. The Obstinate Refusers
Chapter XXVII. The Upper Waters
Chapter XXVIII. The Little River
Chapter XXIX. A Resting-Place on the Upper Thames
Chapter XXX. The Journey’s End
Chapter XXXI. An Old House Amongst New Folk
Chapter XXXII. The Feast’s Beginning — the End
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William Morris
Chapter I Discussion and Bed
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Chapter XXXII The Feast’s Beginning — the End
“But I see that I am boring you, and I ask your pardon. For, not to mince matters, I can tell that you ARE a stranger, and must come from a place very unlike England. But also it is clear that it won’t do to overdose you with information about this place, and that you had best suck it in little by little. Further, I should take it as very kind in you if you would allow me to be the showman of our new world to you, since you have stumbled on me first. Though indeed it will be a mere kindness on your part, for almost anybody would make as good a guide, and many much better.”
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