乌有乡消息

　　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.

　　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）.

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
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