News from Nowhere; Or, An Epoch of Rest / Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance

A restless attendee of a late-night political meeting falls asleep and awakens in a future society that he explores in a first-person account. He encounters a world organized around cooperative ownership, voluntary labour, and the disappearance of commercial exchange, where work is small-scale, artisanal, and integrated with cultivation. Urban space has been transformed into gardens, open workshops, and pedestrian-friendly streets, and social life is sustained by conversation, shared craft, and aesthetic values. The narrative combines descriptive episodes and reflective discussions to examine questions of property, labour, art, and the emotional effects of a more communal, nature-attuned way of living.