This volume brings together some of the most luminous ideas of William Morris against the nocivities of modern civilization. The architecture, the restoration of ancient monuments, the function of applied arts, the utopian vision of the future society, the commitment to make work a source of happiness and not the evil of evils or the unapologetic denunciation of substitutes They offer us as the finished forms of happiness, are some of the issues on which William Morris, with his usual flair, argues. The surprising thing is that, almost one hundred and fifty years after being written, Morris's texts continue to give encouragement to the critique of the dreadful world that the civilization of merchandise is leaving behind. Edited by Olivier Barancy and translated by Javier Rodríguez, The era of the Successor is a perfect complement to our previous book by Morris How we live and how we could live, and also an unbeatable approach to the theoretical contributions of who is undoubtedly one of the most lucid critics -of all times- of capitalist society.