Looking Backward

by Edward Bellamy

Overview

An entertaining and stimulating utopian fantasy about a young man who's put into a hypnotic trance in the late nineteenth century and awakens in the year 2000 to find crime, war, and want nonexistent.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780486290386
Publisher:	Dover Publications
Publication date:	04/12/1996
Series:	Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels
Edition description:	Unabridged
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	237,808
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	14 - 18 Years

About the Author

Edward Bellamy (1850-1898) was an American author, journalist, and activist. He was a Nationalist, and his work inspired the establishment of many Nationalist clubs throughout the United States. Bellamy’s most popular work, Looking Backward, was one of the bestsellers of his time, and inspired political action from the readers. The year before he died, Bellamy published a sequel to Looking Backward called Equality that addressed issues overlooked in the original novel. Throughout his prolific career, Edward Bellamy used his talent to advocate for social justice and inspire political change.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	7
	Suggestions for Further Reading	29
	A Note on the Text	31
	Looking Backward	35

Editorial Reviews

First published in 1888, Bellamy's utopian novel concerns a 19th century Bostonian who awakes from a sleep to find himself in the year 2000 in a world of near-perfect cooperation and prosperity. Historian Daniel Borus adds a 28-page introduction, a chronology of Bellamy's life, a selected bibliography, and questions to consider when reading the novel. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

Here is the sort of intellectual Buck Rogers. In this nearly forgotten classic, a member of the Boston leisure class falls asleep in 1888 and wakes in 2000. Thence follows endless conversations reflecting journalist/fictionalist Edward Bellamy's prescient solutions to the problems of Victorian industrialism. This is less a novel than a dialectic, a quality that Edward Lewis's dry reading emphasizes. He sounds like an academic reading a paper to the Academy. His precise diction and phrasing are important pluses, given the fustian locutions he has to deal with. Y.R. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine

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