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Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (Bedford Series in History & Culture)

Author(s): Bellamy, Edward

Designer(s): Richard Emery Design, Inc.

Pages: 214

Year: 1994-11-15

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

URL: http://www.amazon.com/Looking-Backward-2000-1887-Bedford-History/dp/0312105…

ISBN: 312105916

Abstract: Book Description: First published in 1888 and a phenomenal best-seller, Looking Backward is Edward Bellamy's utopian novel about ninteenth-century Bostonian who awakes after a sleep for more than one hundred years to find himself in the year 2000 in a world of near-perfect cooperation, harmony, and prosperity. More than just a fanciful novel, Looking Backward was, in effect, Bellamy's blueprint for a socialist-type state, conceived in response to problems of the Gilded Age brought on in part by the pace of the late-nineteenth-century industrialization. The novel had an enormous impact at the time of its publication, setting in motion a wave of reform activity and creating a vogue for utopian novels that continued over the next three decades. In addition to an extensive introduction, Daniel Borus's new edition of Looking Backward contains a chronology of Bellamy's life, a bibliography, questions to consider when reading the novel, and an index.

Category: Fiction

Location: Arnhem

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