News from Nowhere (1890) is a utopian novel by William Morris. It follows William Guest, who falls asleep after a socialist meeting and awakens in a transformed twenty-first-century England. Guided by Dick Hammond, he journeys along the River Thames, discovering a pastoral, classless society where money, private property, government, and industry have been abolished following a peaceful revolution. People work joyfully, value craftsmanship, and live in harmony with nature. Through this vision, Morris critiques Victorian capitalism and Edward Bellamy's industrial utopianism, presenting his ideal of an agrarian socialist commonwealth rooted in beauty, meaningful labor, and human fellowship.
