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　　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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IntroductionChronologyBibliographical noteA note on the textNews 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 endIndex

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　　'The strike went on this day also. The workmen's committees were extended， and gave relief to great numbers“people， for they had orgarused a considerable amount of production of food by men whom they could depend upon. Quite a number of well-to-do people were now compelled to seek relief of them. But another curious thing happened：a band of young men“the upper classes armed themselves， and coolly went marauding in the streets， taking what suited them of such eatables and portables that they came across in the shops which had ventured to open. Thus operation they carried out in Oxford Street， then a great street of shops of all kinds. The Government， being at that hour in one of their yielding moods， thought this a fine opportunity for showing their impartiality in the maintenance of "order"， and sent to arrest these hungry rich youths; who， however， surprised the police by a valiant resistance， so that all but three escaped. The Govenment did not gain the reputation for impartiality which they expected from this move， for they forgot that there were no evening papers; and the account of the skirnush spread wide indeed， but in a distorted form; for it was mostly told simply as an exploit of the starving people from the East-end; and everybody thought　it was but natural for the Government to put them down when and where they could.　　'That evening the rebel prisoners were visited in their cells by very polite and sympathetic persons， who pointed out to them what a suicidal course they were following， and how dangerous these extreme courses were for the popular cause. Says one of the prisoners： "It is was great sport comparing notes when we came out anent the attempt of the Government to 'get at' us separately a prison， and how we answered the blandishments of the highly 'intelligent and refined' persons set on to pump us. One laughed; another told extravagant long-bow stories to the envoy;a third held a sulky silence;a fourth damned the polite spy and bade him hold his jaw - and that was all they got out of us."　　……

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