Edward R Bellamy

Looking Backward

Set 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. Addressing moral and material concerns of late nineteenth century industrial America through romanti...

Looking Backward 2000-1887 (Oxford World's Classics)

Julian West, a feckless aristocrat living in Boston in 1887, plunges into a deep hypnotic sleep. When he wakes up in the year 2000, America has been turned into a rigorously centralized democratic society in which everything is controlled by a humane and efficient state. In little more than a hundre...

Hooking Watermelons

"[...] Hooking Watermelons / 1898 Edward Bellamy [...]".

Looking Backward: 2000-1887

Edward Bellamy's 'Looking Backward: 2000-1887' remains the most successful and influential Utopian novel written by an American writer. At the end of the 19th century, Bellamy creates a picture of a wonderful future society. Bellamy's protagonist is Julian West, a young aristocratic Bostonian who fa...

Equality: The Stunning Sequel to Looking Backward

"Looking Backward" was a small book, and I was not able to get into it all I wished to say on the subject. Since it was published what was left out of it has loomed up as so much more important than what it contained that I have been constrained to write another book. I have taken the date of "Looki...

The Edward Bellamy Megapack: 20 Classic Novels and Stories

This Megapack collects 20 of Edward Bellamy's novels and short stories -- including his classic political science fiction novel, LOOKING BACKWARDS, and its sequel, EQUALITY. Complete contents:LOOKING BACKWARDEQUALITYTHE BLINDMAN’S WORLDDR. HEIDENHOFF’S PROCESSMISS LUDINGTON’S SISTERAN ECHO OF ANTIET...

Looking Backward 2000-1887

What strikes readers most about Edward Bellamy’s classic science fiction novel are the prognostications the author makes for the future. Looking Backward: 2000-1887 was published in 1888, and has stayed on the pop culture landscape for over 100 years, thanks in no small part to its imagining of debi...

Looking Backward (Dover Thrift Editions)

First published in 1888, Looking Backward was one of the most popular novels of its day. Translated into more than 20 languages, its utopian fantasy influenced such thinkers as John Dewey, Thorstein Veblen, Eugene V. Debs, and Norman Thomas. Writing from a 19th century perspective and poignantly cri...

Looking Backward, 2000-1887

Looking Backward 2000-1887

Looking Backward, 2000-1887

Looking Backward, 2000-1887

Edward Bellamy: Looking Backward, 2000-1887

Women's Magazines And Looking Backward: By Edward Bellamy

America a Concise History, 2e Volume 2 + Looking Backward + the Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt

Lincoln, Slavery, + the Civil War And Looking Backward

Alfred Russel Wallace

… He criticised the UK's free trade policies for the negative impact they had on working-class people.[23][36] In 1889, Wallace read Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy and declared himself a socialist.[37] Ideas like these led him to oppose eugenics, an idea supported by other prominent 19th-...

Edward Bellamy

Edward Bellamy (26 March 1850 22 May 1898) was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, set in the year 2000 ...