![]() ![]() (Summary adapted from Wikipedia)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit. This book outlines Bellamy's complex thoughts about improving the future, and is an indictment of industrial capitalism. has been transformed into a socialist utopia. ![]() And some possible solutions or at least threads to pull on to find solutions to today's problem of labor and capital. He finds himself in the same location (Boston, Massachusetts) but in a totally changed world: It is the year 2000 and, while he was sleeping, the U.S.A. Looking Backward is a wonderful bit of escapist literature, and, more importantly, gives us an insight into the minds of progressives of the 19th century. The book tells the story of Julian West, a young American who, towards the end of the 19th century, falls into a deep, hypnosis-induced sleep and wakes up more than a century later. ![]() It was the third largest bestseller of its time, after Uncle Tom's Cabin and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. Edward Bellamy’s early science fiction novel Looking Backward presents one attempt at envisioning a socialist society of the futurefree from war, poverty, advertisements, and other unpleasantries. Looking Backward: 2000-1887 is a utopian novel by Edward Bellamy,, first published in 1888. When it was first published in 1888, its success was behind that of only Uncle Tom's Cabin and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. ![]() LibriVox recording of Looking Backward: 2000-1887, by Edward Bellamy. His novel Looking Backward is a widely regarded work of socialist Utopian fiction and was referenced in many Marxist publications of the time. ![]()
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