Guest decides to ride in Ellen’s boat, leaving Dick and Clara to proceed in theirs.
Ellen appears in a boat, having followed them up the river. The third day, the group reaches Wallingford and meets an old man named Henry Morsom. Walter says that a strange argument nearby has eventuated in a murder. The next night, they sleep with Dick’s friend, Walter Allen. Guest finds the elderly man’s daughter, Ellen, very beautiful. The first night, they sleep in Runnymede at the home of an elderly man who misses the past, believing that it was more exciting and alive. They stop at the Tudor palace, which has been converted into a museum. They sleep there, leaving the following morning to go on a boat trip up the Thames, to a place near Oxford where they intend to help harvest hay. That night, Clara and Dick bring Guest back to the Guest House. While learning more about the different social transformations that brought London to this state, Guest finds that it was achieved ultimately through a revolution led by the proletariat. He meets Dick’s ex-wife, Clara, and is shocked that the two are still in love, having separated merely for their independence. Guest and Dick travel throughout London, where the narrator learns that institutions such as jail and school have been abolished, replaced with the liberal principles of social reform and free-roaming childhood. Encountering a boatman named Dick, who is dressed in simple but attractive fourteenth-century-style garb, he begins to question him and realizes that he has been transported to an England of the twenty-first century. He is amazed to find that the industrial buildings have been transformed into a pastoral landscape. He falls into a deep slumber waking well rested, he decides to enjoy a swim in the Thames River. One evening, after a public Socialist League meeting and political discussion, the narrator, William Guest, rides a train home to Hammersmith, a suburb of London. The novel has been canonized for its compelling fusion of Marxism and the romantic literary tradition, casting the narrator as an almost fantastical figure uprooted from his original context in Victorian England. Primarily an agricultural society, it works seamlessly due to its people’s investment in the natural world, which gives them intrinsic meaning in their work.
The utopia is devoid of private property, lacking dense urban areas and centralized authority, as well as financial systems, courts, jails, classes, and social institutions, such as divorce. He witnesses the success of certain features of socialism, including common ownership of resources and the shared control of the means of production. News from Nowhere (1890), a political novel by writer, translator, and activist William Morris, is told by a socialist, William Guest, who waking up after a Socialist League meeting, finds himself in a utopian future world where socialism has taken hold.
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