CENTENARY PUBLICATIONS FROM THOEMMES PRESS
 Political
Writings: Contributions to Justice and Commonweal
1883-1890. Edited and Introduced by Nicholas
Salmon.
This collection offers new insight into the political philosophy of one of the most influential thinkers of the Victorian age. The work includes all the important political essays from the period 1883-1890. ISBN 1-85506-252-6, 450pp., 1994: Paperback: £16.75; Hardback: ISBN 1-85506-251-8: £60.00.
Published in 1876, this is Morris's poetic retelling of 'the great story of the North' which Morris regarded as important as the better known Homeric stories. Seldom reprinted, Sigurd is a poem which one reviewer called 'his greatest and most successful effort.' ISBN 1-85506-253-4, 346pp., 1911 edition: Paperback: £14.95.
These two volumes read together show clearly the development of his political cultural thinking. ISBN 1-85506-254-2, 312 pp., 1914/1915 editions: Paperback: £14.75.
ISBN 1-85506-255-0, 282pp., 1911 edition, Paperback: £12.75.
This is one of the Group of prose romances which Morris wrote towards the end of his life. It is particularly notable for its focus on a female hero, and for its unusual prose style. ISBN 1-85506-256-9, 408 pp., 1913 edition, Paperback £15.75.
One of the earliest full-length accounts of Morris and his work, giving a serious account of the connection between Morris's views on art, work, and socialism. ISBN 1-85506-257-7, 150 pp., 1900 edition, Hardback: £32.00.
This memoir casts an interesting light on the early days of British Socialism. It includes a preface by Morris's daughter, May. ISBN 1-85506-258-5, 244 pp., 1921 edition, Hardback: £48.00.
William Morris founded Commonweal in 1885 as 'The Official Journal of the Socialist League.' Its declared aim was to promote 'the principles of Revolutionary International Socialism.' The paper rapidly established a reputation as the foremost socialist journal of the period and included articles by Friedrich Engels, Eleanor Marx, and George Bernard Shaw. Morris contributed a regular 'News' column to the paper in which he analyzed contemporary events from a Marxist perspective. These articles, the bulk of which have not been published since they first appeared, form the basis of this volume. They reveal Morris to have been a journalist of great perception, skill, and insight. The publication of this collection--along with the William Morris Library's Political Writings volume--means that all Morris's work from Justice and Commonweal are now available. ISBN 1-85506-459-6, 540pp., 1996, Paperback: £18.75.
Morris invented the modern form of the fantasy, set in a world physically more beautiful, less cluttered, crowded and urbanized than our own. Superficially similar to medieval Europe, his worlds are both magical and lethal. Norman Talbot's introduction explores the paradoxes inherent in Morris's heroic narrative through these two texts. ISBN 1-85506-461-8, 245 pp., 1912/1913 editions, Paperback: £14.95.
The Hollow Land, Morris's early work, manifests the essential qualities of Morris's art--its imaginative exuberance combined with practical management to give that exuberance its expression. He was not only the most prolific contributor to the Magazine but also its instigator, its first editor, and its sole financial backer. The new introduction provides the historical and biographical background to The Hollow Land. It reviews the century-long dispute over which pieces Morris contributed to the Magazine in 1856, including new information and argument to resolve the dispute. ISBN 1-85506-463-4, 355 pp., 1903 edition, Paperback: £15.75
Three Northern Love Stories (1875) represents the first fruits of 25 years of successful collaboration between William Morris and Eikir Magnusson, whose translations from the Icelandic attracted universal acclaim. Of special interest are Morris's new and very skillful renditions of the saga's many complex 'drottkvaett' stanzas. ISBN 1-85506-456-0, 172 pp., 1911 edition, Paperback: £12.75.
For the early socialists in Morris's circle the question was not whether to replace capitalism but how it was to be done. These three seminal pieces (William Morris 'The policy of Abstention' (1887); John Carruthers 'Socialism and Radicalism' (1894) and Fred Henderson 'The ABC of Socialism' (1915)) address this question. Stephen Coleman's extensive introduction sets these works in the context of a long-standing political debate between social reform and social transformation, showing that these issues are by no means unimportant for radicals today. ISBN 1-85506-467-7, 120pp., 1996 Paperback: £9.75.
Morris is now rightly thought of as the inspirer of the Arts and Crafts Movement in England at the end of the nineteenth century, which had such a strong influence on the development of design throughout Europe. This volume, edited and with a preface by William Morris, includes essays by Morris--on Textiles, Printing and Dyeing--May Morris, Walter Crane, F. Madox Brown, W. R. Lethaby, and J.D. Sedding. ISBN 1-85506-469-3, 420pp., 1893 edition, Paperback £16.75.
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Journalism:
Contributions to Commonweal 1885-90. Edited and
introduced by Nicholas Salmon.
The
Story of the Glittering Plain and Child Christopher.
With a new introduction by Norman Talbot.
Reform
and Revolution: Three Early Socialists on the Way Ahead.
Edited and introduced by Stephen Coleman.
Arts
and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts
Exhibition Society. With a new introduction by Peter
Faulkner.