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A Dream of John Ball
Morris, William http://www.connexions.org/CxArchive/MIA/morris/works/1886/johnball/chapters/index.htm
http://www.marxists.org/archive/morris/works/1886/johnball/chapters/index.htm
Year Published: 1888
Book Type: Fiction
Resource Type: Book
Morris' novel describes a dream and time travel leading to an encounter between the medieval and modern worlds. Morris describes a positive image of the Middle Ages, seeing it as a golden, if brief, period when peasants were prosperous and happy and guilds protected workers from exploitation.
It contains the famous passage "... I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name..."
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