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Looking Backward: 2000-1887 Paperback - 1982
by Edward Bellamy; Introduction by Cecelia Tichi
Summary
It is the year 2000-and full employment, material abundance and social harmony can be found everywhere. This is the America to which Julian West, a young Bostonian, awakens after more than a century of sleep. West's initial sense of wonder, his gradual acceptance of the new order and a new love, and Bellamy's wonderful prophetic inventions - electric lighting, shopping malls, credit cards, electronic broadcasting - ensured the mass popularity of this 1888 novel. But however rich in fantasy and romance, Looking Backward is a passionate attach on the social ills of nineteenth-century industrialism and a plea for social reform and moral renewal. In her introduction, Cecelia Tichi discusses how the novel echoes the anguish and hopes of its own age while it embodies a sustaining myth of the American literary tradition-that man's perfectibility is attainable in the New World.
From the rear cover
Edward Bellamy's utopian novel about a nineteenth-century Bostonian who awakes after a sleep of more than one hundred years to find himself in the year 2000 in a world of near-perfect cooperation, harmony, and prosperity. 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.
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- Title Looking Backward: 2000-1887
- Author Edward Bellamy; Introduction by Cecelia Tichi
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reissue
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 1982-12-16
- Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780140390186 / 0140390189
- Weight 0.38 lbs (0.17 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.04 x 0.46 in (20.07 x 12.80 x 1.17 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Library of Congress subjects Science fiction, Time travel
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 82014986
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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