News From Nowhere - William Morris

01/06/2019 7h 37min
News From Nowhere - William Morris

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Listen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: News From NowhereAuthor: William MorrisNarrator: Margaret MeloshFormat: UnabridgedLength: 7:37:32Language: EnglishRelease date: 06-01-2019Publisher: Bookwire USDGenres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Apocalyptic & DystopianSummary:News From Nowhere centers around the encounter between a visitor from the nineteenth century, William Guest, and a decentralized and humane socialist future without class segregation and with direct democracy without government al empowerment. Inspired by the work of John Ruskin and Karl Marx; this novel is not only a declaration of egalitarian principles but a great early contribution to the utopian genre. This work could be seen as a kind of utopian counterpart to George Orwell's renowned and deeply pessimistic, dystopian novel 1984.

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