Looking backward, 2000-1887.
By: Edited by John L. Thomas.
Contributors: Thomas, John L., ed.
Series: The John Harvard library
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Two thousand, A.D. -- Fiction.; Social problems -- Fiction.; Time travel -- Fiction.; Utopias -- Fiction.; Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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 attack on the social ills of nineteenth-century industrialism and a plea for social reform and moral renewal.
Notes: First published in 1888. Reprinted from the corrected MS.
Sequel: Equality.