Looking Backward (1888) [Novel]
by Edward Bellamy
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First published in 1888 and a phenomenal bestseller, Looking Backward is Edward Bellamy's utopian novel about a nineteenth-century Bostonian who awakes after a sleep of 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 the problems of the Gilded Age brought on in part by the pace of 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.
Original title: Looking Backward: 2000-1887
Original languages:
English
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Genre: Fiction→ Science Fiction→ Political→ Dystopia/Utopia
This work is excerpted in the following works :
Magic & Madness in the Library (1999) [Anthology]
Authors: Aldous Huxley
, Stephen King
, Ray Bradbury
, Miguel de Cervantes
, Jonathan Swift
, Jules Verne
, Edith Wharton
, Virginia Woolf
, Voltaire
, Umberto Eco
, Jorge Luis Borges
, Washington Irving
, Donald Olson
, Edmund (Lester) Pearson
, Elizabeth McCracken
, Edward Bellamy
, George Crabbe
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