Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887

by Bellamy, Edward

• ISBN13: 9781557095060
• ISBN10: 155709506X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: INGRAM
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Introduction: Edward Bellamy's Utopia in his Time and Ours

The Document

Author's Preface

Looking Backward

Postscript: The Rate of the World's Progress

Appendices

A Bellamy Chronology (1850-1898)

Questions for Consideration

Selected Bibliography

Index

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