| Looking Backward: 2000-1887 Contributor(s): Bellamy, Edward (Author), Tichi, Cecelia (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0140390189 ISBN-13: 9780140390186 Publisher: Penguin Group
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: December 1982 Annotation: 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. 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. Click for more in this series: Penguin Classics |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Science Fiction - Time Travel - Fiction | Visionary & Metaphysical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 82014986 |
| Age Level: 18-UP |
| Grade Level: 13-UP |
| Series: Penguin Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.46" H x 5.04" W x 7.9" L (0.38 lbs) 240 pages |
| Features: Bibliography, Ikids, Price on Product, Table of Contents |
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| Publisher Description: It is the year 2000-and full employment, material abundance and social harmony can be found everywhere. This is the America to which Julian West, a young Bostonian, awakens after more than a century of sleep. West's initial sense of wonder, his gradual acceptance of the new order and a new love, and Bellamy's wonderful prophetic inventions - electric lighting, shopping malls, credit cards, electronic broadcasting - ensured the mass popularity of this 1888 novel. But however rich in fantasy and romance, Looking Backward is a passionate attach on the social ills of nineteenth-century industrialism and a plea for social reform and moral renewal. In her introduction, Cecelia Tichi discusses how the novel echoes the anguish and hopes of its own age while it embodies a sustaining myth of the American literary tradition-that man's perfectibility is attainable in the New World. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
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