-<Tab/>Analysis of William Morris' News from Nowhere News from Nowhere is the most famous work of one of the greatest British writers and thinkers, William Morris. It is a utopian picture of a future communist society, drawing on the work of Ruskin and Marx and written in response to what Morris saw as "soulless and mechanical visions of socialism". In this work of his last years, Morris introduced many of …
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…or estate to settle. News From Nowhere is an uncommon nineteenth century utopian novel, because Morris stresses the lack of technology in his utopia, unlike 1984 or Brave New World. Necessary objects are created by hand, although there are some uses of machinery: "All work which would be irksome to do by hand is done by immensely improved machinery; and in all work which it is a pleasure to do by hand machinery is done without"