News from Nowhere (1890) is the best-known prose work of William Morris. The novel describes the encounter between a visitor from the nineteenth century, William Guest, and a decentralized and humane socialist future. Set over a century after a revolutionary upheaval in 1952, these `Chapters from a Utopian Romance` recount his journey across London and up the Thames to Kelmscott Manor, Morris`s own country house in Oxfordshire. Drawing on the work of John Ruskin and Karl Marx, Morris`s book is not only an evocative statement of his egalitarian convictions but also a distinctive contribution to the utopian tradition. Morris`s rejection of state socialism and his ambition to transform the relationship between humankind and the natural world, giveNews from Nowhere a particular resonance for modern readers.

The text is based on that of 1891, incorporating the extensive revisions made by Morris to the first edition.