An edition of Looking backward (1906)

Looking backward

2000-1887

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An edition of Looking backward (1906)

Looking backward

2000-1887

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  • ★★★★ 4.0 (1 rating) ·
  • 13 Want to read
  • 3 Have read

Bellamy's novel tells the story of a hero figure named Julian West, a young American, who towards the end of the 19th century, falls into a deep, hypnosis-induced sleep and wakes up 113 years later. 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 United States has been transformed into a socialist utopia. The remainder of the book outlines Bellamy's thoughts about improving the future. The major themes include problems associated with capitalism, a proposed socialist solution of a nationalization of all industry, and the use of an "industrial army" to organize production and distribution, as well as how to ensure free cultural production under such conditions.

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Publisher
Signet Classic, Signet Classics
Language
English
Pages
222

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Subjects

Fiction, Utopias, Two thousand, A.D. in fiction, Social problems in fiction, Time travel in fiction, Time travel, Two thousand, A.D., Social problems, Utopias in fiction, Science fiction, Two thousand, A.D, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Boston (mass.), fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general

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Boston (Mass.)
Edition Availability
Cover of: Looking backward
Looking backward: 2000-1887
2000, Signet Classic, Signet Classics
in English
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Cover of: Looking backward
Looking backward
1996, Dover Publications
in English
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Looking backward: 2000-1887
1960, New American Library
in English
Cover of: Looking backward.
Looking backward.
1959, Harper
in English
Cover of: Vuonna 2000
Vuonna 2000: katsaus vuoteen 1887
1907, Työväen kirjapaino
in Finnish - 2. painos.
Cover of: In hunderṭ yohr arum
In hunderṭ yohr arum
1906, Progress
in Yiddish
Cover of: In hunderṭ yohr arum
In hunderṭ yohr arum
1906, [Progres]
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Cover of: In hunderṭ yohr arum
In hunderṭ yohr arum
1906, Progres
in Yiddish
Cover of: LOOKING BACKWARD.
LOOKING BACKWARD.
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-222).

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New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.4
Library of Congress
PS1086 .L6 2000, PS1086.L6 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 222 p. ;
Number of pages
222

ID Numbers

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OL6806483M
Internet Archive
lookingbackward20000bell
ISBN 10
0451527631
LCCN
00269834
Library Thing
20885
Goodreads
296977

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