| Looking Backward: 2000-1887 Contributor(s): Bellamy, Edward (Author), Miller, Walter James (Introduction by), Fintushel, Eliot (Afterword by) |
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ISBN: 0451531167 ISBN-13: 9780451531162 Publisher: Signet Book
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Mass Market Paperbound - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: January 2009 Annotation: Originally published in 1888, Looking Backward is Edward Bellamy's most famous work. The story revolves around Julian West, a man who falls asleep near the end of the 19th century and wakes up in the year 2000. During the time he slept, the United States became a socialist utopia. The majority of the book is a vehicle for Bellamy to expound upon his ideas about societal improvement. Americans in his year 2000 work fewer hours, retire early, and receive all they need from the government. Entertaining and oddly prophetic in some ways, Bellamy's vision of the future from the perspective of the late 19th century is highly engaging. American author EDWARD BELLAMY (1850-1898) also wrote Dr. Heidenhoff's Process (1880), Equality (1897), and The Duke of Stockbridge (1900). |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Science Fiction - Time Travel |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2009281413 |
| Age Level: 18-UP |
| Grade Level: 13-UP |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.24" W x 6.75" L (0.27 lbs) 256 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Edward Bellamy's prophetic novel about a young Boston man who is mysteriously transported from the 19th to the 21st century--from a world of war and want to a world of peace and plenty. The year is 2000. The place: Utopian America. The hero: anyone who has ever longed for escape to a better life... Translated into more than twenty languages, and the most widely read novel of its time, Looking Backward is more than a brilliant visionary's view of the future. It is a blueprint of the "perfect society," a guidebook that stimulated some of the greatest thinkers of our age. Today--in the very era it attempted to visualize--it is even more compelling than ever. With an Introduction by Walter James Miller And an Afterword by Eliot Fintushel |
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