William Morris: 212 books

William Morris is most famous for his textile design, but he was also a passionate and active socialist. News From Nowhere explores his socialist ideals in soft science-fiction. A man returns from a socialist meeting and falls into a sleep from which he wakes in a utopian, socialist future.

William Morris was an English writer, architect, and artist and was integral to the birth of socialism in Great Britain. He founded the Socialist League in 1884, but later broke away from it over differences in methods and goals. Signs of Change is a collection of his essays on art, politics and socialism, including 'Useful Work versus Useless Toil'.

William Morris was a 19th century British novelist best known for helping pioneer the fantasy genre.

William Morris was a 19th century British novelist best known for helping pioneer the fantasy genre.

William Morris was a 19th century British novelist best known for helping pioneer the fantasy genre.

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...

Can we live better? 7 classic utopias is a collection of the most famous classical works on the topic of an ideal society.For thousands of years human beings have dreamt of perfect worlds, worlds free of conflict, hunger and unhappiness. But can these worlds ever exist in reality?Many thinkers and...

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.

"This astute and long overdue reappraisal provides a lucid overview and a wealth of contextual information. An excellent resource." -- Shannon L. Rogers, Saint Joseph’s University, Editor, Newsletter of the William Morris Society in the United States "through his insightful...

William Morris was a 19th century British novelist best known for helping pioneer the fantasy genre.

In Dark Watch and other Mormon-American Stories, William Morris explores how Latter-day Saints navigate the challenges of living in the modern U.S. and participating in the modern Church. Spanning from the early 1980s to the present and into the next century, these 16 stories portray moments that are uniquely, thoroughly and sometimes bittersweetly Mormon-American.

Golden Walter leaves him homeland after his wife betrays him. Word reaches him that her family have killed his father, and all ties are broken with his old life. He is shipwrecked upon a foreign shore and begins a fantastical adventure. Written by the English textiles designer William Morris, this is one of the first modern supernatural fantasy novels.

William Morris was a 19th century British novelist best known for helping pioneer the fantasy genre.

William Morris was a 19th century British novelist best known for helping pioneer the fantasy genre.