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News from Nowhere
William Morris's novel belongs here as one work. The book has 32 chapters; the first three are transmuted below, and later chapters will join the same 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.