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This
bumper volume includes News from Nowhere, A Dream of John Ball and The Pilgrims
of Hope the main works in which William Morris expressed in fictional form
his socialist convictions.
For many readers, News From Nowhere is Morris's greatest work. An imaginative
picture of rare beauty of the ideal communist society, in which humanity has
at last found 'the new day of fellowship, and rest, and happiness', it is
a compelling exposition of practical socialist policies. In A Dream of John
Ball Morris again uses the imagery of the dream to expound his theories of
social change, setting the realities of capitalist 'liberty' against the serfdom
of feudal times. The Pilgrims of Hope is less well known. A narrative poem
in the romantic tradition, it tells the epic story of the Paris Commune as
experienced by an Englishman who fought side by side with the Communards.