Looking Backward
- ISBN-10
- 0451522249
- ISBN-13
- 9780451522245
- Series
- Looking Backward
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1960-08
- Publisher
- Signet Classics
- Author
- Edward Bellamy
Description
Stimulating, thought-provoking utopian fantasy about a young man who's put into a hypnotic trance in the late 19th-century and awakens in the year 2000 to find crime, war and want non-existent.
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