Product Description

A biography of William Morris - designer, writer and poet, and one of the founders of the socialist movement - which knits together the innumerable threads and themes of his life, some of them contradictory.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #134973 in Books
• Published on: 2003-11-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 800 pages

Customer Reviews

Multifarious Morris
Fiona MacCarthy has excelled herself with this biography of William Morris. You could hardly ask for a greater wealth of material; clearly her research has been painstaking. But over and above the mere technicalities of being accurate and chronological, Fiona has created a very enjoyable read which quickly gets you very involved with the subject's often extremely complex life. The detail is prodigious, but never amounts to mere padding; on the contrary, it gives one an intimate picture of a passionate, industrious, inventive and vulnerable man whose numerous interests and enthusiasms invariably left him with too few hours in each day. If you thought you knew Morris, think again - there was so much more to the man than most would have surmised. I found the writing on his Icelandic preoccupations and his poetry particularly interesting, but there's social and sexual politics aplenty for those in need of them. Congratulations Fiona on an excellent book, one that I cannot imagine ever being eclipsed. A very worthwhile purchase.