Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chronology
- Bibliographical note
- A note on the text
- News from Nowhere
- 1 Discussion and bed
- 2 A morning bath
- 3 The guest house and breakfast therein
- 4 A market by the way
- 5 Children on the road
- 6 A little shopping
- 7 Trafalgar Square
- 8 An old friend
- 9 Concerning love
- 10 Questions and answers
- 11 Concerning government
- 12 Concerning the arrangement of life
- 13 Concerning politics
- 14 How matters are managed
- 15 On the lack of incentive to labour in a communist society
- 16 Dinner in the hall of the Bloomsbury Market
- 17 How the change came
- 18 The beginning of the new life
- 19 The drive back to Hammersmith
- 20 The Hammersmith guest house again
- 21 Going up the river
- 22 Hampton Court, and a praiser of past times
- 23 An early morning by Runnymede
- 24 Up the Thames
- 25 The third day on the Thames
- 26 The Obstinate Refusers
- 27 The upper waters
- 28 The little river
- 29 A resting-place on the upper Thames
- 30 The journey's end
- 31 An old house amongst new folk
- 32 The feast's beginning – the end
- Index
- Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
23 - An early morning by Runnymede
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chronology
- Bibliographical note
- A note on the text
- News from Nowhere
- 1 Discussion and bed
- 2 A morning bath
- 3 The guest house and breakfast therein
- 4 A market by the way
- 5 Children on the road
- 6 A little shopping
- 7 Trafalgar Square
- 8 An old friend
- 9 Concerning love
- 10 Questions and answers
- 11 Concerning government
- 12 Concerning the arrangement of life
- 13 Concerning politics
- 14 How matters are managed
- 15 On the lack of incentive to labour in a communist society
- 16 Dinner in the hall of the Bloomsbury Market
- 17 How the change came
- 18 The beginning of the new life
- 19 The drive back to Hammersmith
- 20 The Hammersmith guest house again
- 21 Going up the river
- 22 Hampton Court, and a praiser of past times
- 23 An early morning by Runnymede
- 24 Up the Thames
- 25 The third day on the Thames
- 26 The Obstinate Refusers
- 27 The upper waters
- 28 The little river
- 29 A resting-place on the upper Thames
- 30 The journey's end
- 31 An old house amongst new folk
- 32 The feast's beginning – the end
- Index
- Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
Summary
Though there were no rough noises to wake me, I could not lie long abed the next morning, where the world seemed so well awake, and, despite the old grumbler, so happy; so I got up, and found that, early as it was, some one had been stirring, since all was trim and in its place in the little parlour, and the table laid for the morning meal. Nobody was afoot in the house as then, however, so I went out a-doors, and after a turn or two round the superabundant garden, I wandered down over the meadow to the river-side, where lay our boat, looking quite familiar and friendly to me. I walked up-stream a little, watching the light mist curling up from the river till the sun gained power to draw it all away; saw the bleak speckling the water under the willow boughs, whence the tiny flies they fed on were falling in myriads; heard the great chub splashing here and there at some belated moth or other, and felt almost back again in my boyhood. Then I went back again to the boat, and loitered there a minute or two, and then walked slowly up the meadow towards the little house. I noted now that there were four more houses of about the same size on the slope away from the river.
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- Morris: News from Nowhere , pp. 159 - 164Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995