Looking Backward, 2000-1887
| Author/creator | Bellamy, Edward Author |
| Other author | Thomas, John L. Editor |
| Other author | American Council of Learned Societies. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge : Harvard University Press |
| Description | 322 p. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from ACLS Humanities E-Book |
| Subjects |
| Series | The John Harvard Library |
| Summary | Annotation 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. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 67014337 |
| ISBN | 9780674539006 |
| ISBN | 0674539001 (Trade Cloth) Out of Print |
| Stock number | 00011705 |