Looking Backward from 2000 - 1887

ISBN: 1453688315

Author: Bellamy, Edward

Condition: New

Product Description "Looking Backward from 2000-1887" is considered to be one of the greatest and most widely read of the utopian novels. It is the story of a young gentleman from Boston who mysteriously wakes from a sleep of over a hundred years to find himself transplanted to a utopian futuristic world. This future world is one of prosperity, cooperation, and harmony. Edward Bellamy's "Looking Backward from 2000-1887" inspired a rebirth of the utopian novel genre and has been an inspiration to the many forward-looking thinkers who have read it. According to Erich Fromm, "Looking Backward from 2000-1887" is "one of the most remarkable books ever published in America". About the Author Edward Bellamy (1850 - 1898) was a lawyer and writer from western Massachusetts. He studied law, but left the practice and worked briefly in the newspaper industry in New York and in Springfield, Massachusetts. He left journalism and devoted himself to literature, writing both short stories and novels. He is most famous for his utopian novel, "Looking Backward from 2000-1887", set in the year 2000.