William Guest falls asleep in industrial London and wakes in a socialist, money-free future where craft, beauty, and common ownership have replaced the machinery of capitalism.
Books mentioned in News from Nowhere (3)
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray: “I like reading a good old book with plenty of fun in it, like Thackeray's 'Vanity Fair.'”
Richard III by William Shakespeare: “the Bishop of Ely's house is mentioned in Shakespeare's play of King Richard III”
Song of the Shirt by Thomas Hood: “singing Hood's Song of the Shirt”
Books that mention News from Nowhere (2)
A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells: “In almost every Utopia--except, perhaps, Morris's "News from Nowhere"--one sees handsome but characterless buildings”
The Strange Tale of Panorama Island by Edogawa Rampo: “Among such works he was drawn more to Morris's News from Nowhere than to Cabet's Voyage in Icaria, and more than to Morris, to Edgar Poe's The Domain of Arnheim. [auto-translated]”