News from Nowhere（1890）is the most famous work of one of the greatest British writers and thinkers，William Morris.It is a utopoian picture of a future communist society，drawing on the worh of Ruskin and Marx and written in response to what Morris saw as soulless and mechanical visions of sovialism.In this work of his last years，Morris distilled many of his leading ideas on politics，art and society，imagining a world in which capitalism has been abolished by a works’revolution and nature and society have become beautiful habitations for hunmanity.In an era that has seen the collapse of state socialism，Morris's damning critique of this conception，and his positing of a powerful alternative，are compelling reasons for paying attention to this coassic of British socislism.
作者簡介
KRISHAN KUMAR is the William R.Kenan，Jr.Professor of Sociologry，Umiversity of Virginia .His publications include Prophecy and Progress（1978），Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Modem Time（1987），The Rise of Modem Socicty（1988）and Utopicnism（1991）.
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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 4 A market by the way 5 Chilcren 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 veginning -the end Index
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