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Looking Backward: 2000–1887

By Edward Bellamy , Alex MacDonald

Book information

Publisher
Broadview Press
Year
2003
ISBN
1-55111-406-2, 9781551114064
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2657474 bytes)
Series
Broadview Literary Texts
Pages
288\288
Time added
2018-02-18 10:30:00

Description

Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (1888) is one of the most influential utopian novels in English. The narrative follows Julian West, who goes to sleep in Boston in 1887 and wakes in the year 2000 to find that the era of competitive capitalism is long over, replaced by an era of co-operation. Wealth is produced by an “industrial army” and every citizen receives the same wage. This edition contains a rich selection of appendices, including excerpts from Bellamy’s Equality and other writings; contemporary responses (by William Morris, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and others); excerpts from utopian works by Morris and William Dean Howells; and an excerpt from Henry George’s Progress and Poverty.

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