9781404313828

Looking Backward, 2000-1887

Format: Hardcover

ISBN13: 9781404313828

Hardcover|9781404313828


Overview

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.

ISBN-13

9781404313828

ISBN-10

1404313826

Weight

1.00 Pounds

Dimensions

6.50 x 0.75 x 9.50 In

List Price

$17.99

Format

Hardcover

Pages

192 pages

Publisher

Indypublish.Com

Published On

2002-07-01



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