Looking Backward: 2000 to 1887 (Wisehouse Classics Edition) (2016)
- ISBN-10
- 9176374467
- ISBN-13
- 9789176374467
- Series
- Looking Backward
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-10-22
- Publisher
- Wisehouse Classics
- Author
- Edward Bellamy
Description
LOOKING BACKWARD: 2000-1887 is a utopian science fiction novel by Edward Bellamy, a journalist and writer from Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts; it was first published in 1888. It was the third-largest bestseller of its time. It influenced a large number of intellectuals. Erich Fromm writes "It is one of the few books ever published that created almost immediately on its appearance a political mass movement." 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 one hundred and thirteen 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, the use of an "industrial army" to organize production and distribution, as well as how to ensure free cultural production under such conditions. In the United States alone, over 162 "Bellamy Clubs" sprang up to discuss and propagate the book's ideas. Owing to its commitment to the nationalization of private property and the desire to avoid use of the odious term "Socialism," this political movement came to be known as "Nationalism" -not to be confused with the political concept of nationalism. The novel also inspired several utopian communities.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Looking Backward: 2000-1887
By Edward BellamyLooking Backward: 2000-1887 is a utopian science fiction novel by Edward Bellamy, a lawyer and writer from Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts; it was first published in 1887.
-
Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887
By Edward BellamySet in Boston on December 26, 2000, but written before the turn of the nineteenth century, this classic Utopian novel is more significant and relevant than ever with its reappearance this millennium.
-
Looking Backward
By Edward BellamyStimulating, thought-provoking utopian fantasy about a young man who's put into a hypnotic sleep in the late 19th century and awakens in the year 2000 to find a vastly changed world where crime, war, and want no longer exist.
-
Looking Backward, 2000-1887
By Edward BellamyThe novel had an enormous impact at the time of its publication, setting in motion a wave of reform activity and creating a vogue for utopian novels that continued over the next three decades.
-
Looking Backward 2000-1887
By Edward BellamyABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe.
-
Looking Backward: A Photographic Portrait of the World at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
By Michael LesyA transporting work of photographic history that offers a haunting vision of how Americans viewed the world at the dawn of the twentieth century.
-
Looking Further Backward
By Arthur Dudley Vinton1890 Dystopian Science Fiction Thus far we have the testimony of Professor West as to the most apparent faults of what we now call the old order of society.
-
Looking Backward: 2000 - 1887 (with an Introduction by Sylvester Baxter)
By Edward BellamyFirst published in 1888, "Looking Backward: 2000-1887" is the highly influential work of utopian science fiction by American journalist Edward Bellamy.
-
Looking Backward at Us
By William RaspberryPerhaps in the retrospective view some of our attitudes will appear dated. In this collection of more than fifty columns Raspberry faces a variety of the seemingly intractable problems that are the daily concerns of most Americans.
-
Looking Backward From the Year 2000
By Mack ReynoldsThey put him into a hypnotic trance in a sealed room to cure him. Then the house burnt down and he was forgotten. Until he awoke forty years later and could not - dared not - believe what he saw . . .