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Power of joy in life

Overall
4 out of 5 stars
Performance
3 out of 5 stars
Story
3 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 05-12-16

William Morris is a Victorian giant known as the father of Arts and Crafts Movement. He is also renowned as a socialist thinker and a poet.
His diatribe against the wrongdoing of his era tends to quickly get tedious and the remedies for it often sound fanciful. However, you are treated to a view of his genuine passions and joys throughout the book. His affection for the landscapes and the architectures of England along with that for people and the arts are genuinely uplifting.
The description of the protagonist's abrupt loss of the newly acquainted utopia remains haunting.

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