This volume illustrates the variety of William Morris''s prose, while focusing on one theme: the earthly paradise. The "Nowhere" of b>News from Nowhere/b> (1890) is England in 2102, an ideal pastoral society born out of revolution. It is as compelling a dream of the future as the nightmares of b>Brave New World/b> and b>Nineteen Eighty-Four/b>. Exhilaratingly, it reminds us that nothing is inevitable about the way we live now or in 1890.

William morris news from nowhere and other writings (penguin classics) /anglais

La Source au bout du monde - 2

Socialists no more than other people believe that persons are naturally equal: there are amongst men all varieties of disposition, and desires, and degrees of capacity; nevertheless these differences are inequalities are very much increased by the circumstances amongst which a man lives and by those that surrounded the lives of his parents: and these circumstances are more or less under the control of society, that is of the ordered arrangement of persons among which we live. So I say first that granted that men are born with certain tendencies those tendencies can be developed for good and evil by the conditions of our lives, and those conditions are in our own hands to deal with, taking us nation by nation as a whole. If we are careful to be prudent and wise for ourselves and just towards other people those inequalities which are natural can be used for making life pleasanter and more varied: but if we act stupidly and unjustly they become a source of misery to many, and of degradation to all.

I have admitted that men are not naturally equal, yet all persons must admit that there are certain things which we all need; in that respect we are equal: we all need food, clothes, and shelter, and clearly if we need these things we need them in sufficiency, and of good quality, or else we have not really got them. Since then these needs are common to all, it follows that if anyone is not able to satisfy his needs in these respects there is something wrong somewhere, either with nature, or the man himself, or with the society of which he forms a part and which therefore dictates to him how he shall live...

What Socialists Want - Essays on Socialism

Awhile ago there was a young man dwelling in a great and goodly city by the sea which had to name Langton on Holm. He was but of five and twenty winters, a fair-faced man, yellow-haired, tall and strong; rather wiser than foolisher than young men are mostly wont; a valiant youth, and a kind; not of many words but courteous of speech; no roisterer, nought masterful, but peaceable and knowing how to forbear: in a fray a perilous foe, and a trusty war-fellow. His father, with whom he was dwelling when this tale begins, was a great merchant, richer than a baron of the land, a head-man of the greatest of the Lineages of Langton, and a captain of the Porte; he was of the Lineage of the Goldings, therefore was he called Bartholomew Golden, and his son Golden Walter.

Now ye may well deem that such a youngling as this was looked upon by all as a lucky man without a lack; but there was this flaw in his lot, whereas he had fallen into the toils of love of a woman exceeding fair, and had taken her to wife, she nought unwilling as it seemed. But when they had been wedded some six months he found by manifest tokens, that his fairness was not so much to her but that she must seek to the foulness of one worser than he in all ways; wherefore his rest departed from him, whereas he hated her for her untruth and her hatred of him; yet would the sound of her voice, as she came and went in the house, make his heart beat; and the sight of her stirred desire within him, so that he longed for her to be sweet and kind with him, and deemed that, might it be so, he should forget all the evil gone by. But it was not so; for ever when she saw him, her face changed, and her hatred of him became manifest, and howsoever she were sweet with others, with him she was hard and sour.

The Wood Beyond the World

Quel emballage choisir selon le cadeau ? Vous trouverez ici les réponses à cette question ainsi que le matériel pour emballer vos cadeaux. Vous aurez l'embarras du choix avec ces superbes papiers cadeaux de grande qualité aux motifs originaux : papier floral, nostalgique, lignes abstraites... Des modes d'emploi étape par étape vous aideront à réaliser des emballages parfaits, quelle que soit la forme de votre cadeau. Par ailleurs, ces papiers aux motifs superbes peuvent être utilisés pour les activités manuelles comme le scrapbooking par exemple.

William Morris - Papiers cadeau d'artistes (10 feuilles)

The tale tells that in times long past there was a dwelling of men beside a great wood. Before it lay a plain, not very great, but which was, as it were, an isle in the sea of woodland, since even when you stood on the flat ground, you could see trees everywhere in the offing, though as for hills, you could scarce say that there were any; only swellings-up of the earth here and there, like the upheavings of the water that one sees at whiles going on amidst the eddies of a swift but deep stream.

On either side, to right and left the tree-girdle reached out toward the blue distance, thick close and unsundered, save where it and the plain which it begirdled was cleft amidmost by a river about as wide as the Thames at Sheene when the flood-tide is at its highest, but so swift and full of eddies, that it gave token of mountains not so far distant, though they were hidden. On each side moreover of the stream of this river was a wide space of stones, great and little, and in most places above this stony waste were banks of a few feet high, showing where the yearly winter flood was most commonly stayed.

You must know that this great clearing in the woodland was not a matter of haphazard; though the river had driven a road whereby men might fare on each side of its hurrying stream. It was men who had made that Isle in the woodland.

The House of the Wolfings

The hero of this romance is named Golden Walter, son of Bartholomew Golden, a great merchant in the town of Langton on Holm. Tired of his mundane life, Walter sets out on a sea voyage, anxious to see and learn more of the outside world, eventually winning for himself the kingdom of Stark-Wall and the love of a beautiful maiden.

Wood Beyond the World

The Designs Of William Morris

William Morris (1834-1896) connaît plusieurs carrières successives : il est peintre, poète, tisserand, traducteur, décorateur, romancier, éditeur, imprimeur. Vers 1883, il s'engage auprès des socialistes. Dès lors, il sillonne l'Angleterre, l'Ecosse, l'Irlande, pour donner des conférences, en général à des auditoires d'artistes ou d'ouvriers. Ce volume réunit trois de ces conférences. Il y examine le système économique de son temps et démontre avec ferveur ce que ce système a de déshumanisant, il s'y interroge sur les arts décoratifs et sur leur importance dans la vie quotidienne. Dans ces pages, Morris affirme ses préceptes favoris : aucun objet chez soi qui ne soit beau ou utile. Aucun travail qui ne soit une joie à accomplir. Rien de plus important que la beauté, l'amitié et la solidarité.

William morris news from nowhere and other writings (penguin classics) /anglais

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