Looking Backward, 2000-1887
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781594562198
Paperback|9781594562198
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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 | 9781594562198 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1594562199 |
| Weight | 0.96 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.25 x 0.79 x 8.00 In |
| List Price | $7.95 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 320 pages |
| Publisher | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Published On | 2004-04-01 |
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