Looking Backward

Edward Bellamy
270 pages (Fall 2006); 907KB download
WOWIO Books; ISBN: WOWIO-00030

DESCRIPTION

Edward Bellamy's influential novel, Looking Backward: from 2000 to 1887, tells the story of a young Boston gentleman, Julian West, who falls into a hypnosis-induced sleep in the year 1887 and awakens over a century later in a world of peace, prosperity, and harmony. When first released, Bellamy's socialist utopian novel had an immense, almost immeasurable impact which influenced a large number of intellectuals and later utopian works.