(Summary adapted from Wikipedia)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit. This book outlines Bellamy's complex thoughts about improving the future, and is an indictment of industrial capitalism. has been transformed into a socialist utopia. 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 U.S.A. The book tells the story of Julian West, a young American who, towards the end of the 19th century, falls into a deep, hypnosis-induced sleep and wakes up more than a century later. It was the third largest bestseller of its time, after Uncle Tom's Cabin and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. Looking Backward: 2000-1887 is a utopian novel by Edward Bellamy,, first published in 1888. According to Erich Fromm, Looking Backward is 'one of the most remarkable books ever published in America'. LibriVox recording of Looking Backward: 2000-1887, by Edward Bellamy. Looking 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 1888.
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