Looking backward, 2000-1887
By: Edward Bellamy ; edited by Alex MacDonald.
Contributors: MacDonald, Alex, 1948-
Series: Broadview literary texts
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Peterborough, Ont; Orchard Park, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Two thousand, A.D. -- Fiction.; Social problems -- Fiction.; Time travel -- Fiction.; Utopias -- Fiction.; Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 286-288).