William Morris: 21 books

William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist. Associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement, he was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production. His...

Dream of John Ball (1888) is a novel by English author William Morris about the Great Revolt of 1381, conventionally, but incorrectly (few of the participants were actual peasants), called "the Peasants' Revolt". It features the rebel priest John Ball, who was accused of being a Lollard...

Dream of John Ball (1888) is a novel by English author William Morris about the Great Revolt of 1381, conventionally, but incorrectly (few of the participants were actual peasants), called "the Peasants' Revolt". It features the rebel priest John Ball, who was accused of being a Lollard...

This early work by William Morris was originally published in 1899 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. William Morris was born in London, England in 1834. Arguably best known as a textile designer, he founded a design partnership which deeply influenced the decoration...

Poet, artist, and socialist, born at Walthamstow, and educated at Marlborough School and Oxford. After being articled as an architect he was for some years a painter, and then joined in founding the manufacturing and decorating firm of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Co., in which Rossetti, Burne–Jones,...

This new ebook edition includes for first time over 100 never-before-published photographs taken during the author's epic, thousand mile horseback journey across Arizona and New Mexico. It also includes rare and extraordinary historical photographs of the Old West, Native Americans, pioneers, prospectors,...

It is told that there was once a mighty river which ran south into the sea, and at the mouth thereof was a great and rich city, which had been builded and had waxed and thriven because of the great and most excellent haven which the river aforesaid made where it fell into the sea. And now it was like...

Booms Day fireworks light up the skies in downtown Knoxville. The light show reflecting off of the Tennessee River’s surface disguises the caustic waters beneath, polluted by years of improper regulation by inept, corrupt politicians.A troubled mayor who thinks he will be governor is under suspicion by a local reporter and under attack by a crime family in New Jersey.

Do you know where it is -- the Hollow Land? I have been looking for it now so long, trying to find it again the Hollow Land for there I saw my love first. I wish to tell you how I found it first of all; but I am old, my memory fails me: you must wait and let me think if I perchance can tell you how...

Es ist eine Erzählung über die siegreiche Arbeiterklasse im Jahr 2000. Ein wundervolles Bild der Verwirklichung revolutionärer Träume, wenn alle die Aufgaben übernehmen, die sie am besten machen können und wo jede Frau und jeder Mann genügend Freizeit für Lernen und Vergnügen hat. Was...

For two thousand years people have spent their lives waiting praying fighting begging and going to war for the Messiah. They continue to do so every minute of every day every day of every year. And yet as far as we know the Messiah has never come. How would a man like Jesus be perceived if he appeared...

'Asylum-seeker'; refugee'. All the major British political parties have brought these words to the top of the political agenda. Some newspapers shout about the swarms' of refugees arriving on our shores; others criticise our government's lack of humanitarian principles. But what do we know about the...

It’s every mother's worst nightmare and Gail Watson is living it: her six-year-old daughter Cindy was found brutally raped and strangled in a park only blocks from their home. Family and friends urge Gail to get on with her life, but Gail is living for just one thing: to see her daughter's killer...

Joanne Hunter's secure suburban world is falling apart. Her husband's desertion after twenty years of marriage leaves her stunned. Eve, her best friend, is strangely distant. Her grandfather, who's been a pillar of strength and support, lies ill and helpless in a nursing home. Lana and Robin, her...