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News from Nowhere
William Morris's novel belongs here as one work. The book has 32 chapters. Chapters 1 through 6 are translations. Later chapters will join the sequence. The complete source witness sits beside them so every chapter can cite one shared text.
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- 01
Chapter 01
Discussion and Bed
A political meeting dissolves into bad temper before the traveller takes the railway home. Along the Thames, a winter walk and a restless night bring him to the edge of Morris's changed England.
- 02
Chapter 02
A Morning Bath
Summer arrives overnight, and the Thames is suddenly fit for a swim. The traveller meets a waterman there; a handful of old coins soon reveals that ordinary exchange no longer follows the rules he knows.
- 03
Chapter 03
The Guest House and Breakfast Therein
Breakfast at a guest house brings the new society down to table height. Talk wanders through old forests and handwork until a golden dustman arrives in time for the carriage.
- 04
Chapter 04
A Market by the Way
Hammersmith has traded King Street for meadows, gardens, and a market handsome enough to make Guest chuckle. Guide admits to making the theatre doors before an English pun about poverty leaves both travellers talking past each other.
- 05
Chapter 05
Children on the Road
Children camp in Kensington wood, where a stray question about school opens into practical skill, books, languages, and chosen study. Westminster follows, along with Dick's cheerful defence of storing manure in Parliament.
- 06
Chapter 06
A Little Shopping
Piccadilly looks reassuringly like a shopping street until the traveller tries to shop. Children answer his questions about money, weight, and payment with gifts; an elder then revives a sharp old satire about idleness, coerced work, and the people once judged unfit for it.