Talk:News from Nowhere

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It can not be judged as a novel as there is little plot and the narrator is less than credible in that he is Socialist League member, which allows Morris to let him explain conditions in 19th Century Britain to the people of the future but on the other hand he shows an unexpected naiveness towards the society he finds. It is unlikely that a Socialist League member would be surprised by the lack of money and how people work for fulfilment rather than finacial reward not that there is no formal government to speak of. This naivity, however, allows the narrator to pose questions that might well come to mind to non socialists who Morris hopes to convince.
"Nowhere" should be understood in the sense of utopia as the setting is very much London and the Thames valley. As a genre it has far more in common with a travel book than a novel - just don't expect London to be quite like how Morris describes it, should you visit it.

I know what the point is supposed to be here: it could fairly be said that News From Nowhere has some very jarring and unsophisticated features as outlined above. Yet the criticism above falls under original research and the useful bits are covered already. Mattley 16:43, 28 November 2005 (UTC)