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One of the best utopian science fiction novels of all time, by Edward Bellamy: a young Boston gentleman is mysteriously transported from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century -- from a world of war and want to one of peace and plenty.

This brilliant vision became the blueprint of utopia that stimulated some of the greatest thinkers of our age.

Published in 1888, Looking Backwards was the third-largest bestseller of its time, after Uncle Tom's Cabin and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.

Looking Backwards influenced a large number of intellectuals, and appears by title in many of the major Marxist writings of the day.