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Author : W. Arthur Boggs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Looking Backward at the Utopian Novel, 1888-1900 written by W. Arthur Boggs and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Bellamy
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 155709506X
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Looking Backward written by Edward Bellamy and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 romantic narrative, Bellamy suggests a fictionalized society in which war, poverty, and malice do not exist.
Author : Edward Bellamy
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781718682443
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (824 download)
Download or read book Looking Backward, 2000 To 1887 written by Edward Bellamy and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the year 2000-and full employment, material abundance and social harmony can be found everywhere. This is the America to which Julian West, a young Bostonian, awakens after more than a century of sleep. West's initial sense of wonder, his gradual acceptance of the new order and a new love, and Bellamy's wonderful prophetic inventions - electric lighting, shopping malls, credit cards, electronic broadcasting - ensured the mass popularity of this 1888 novel. But however rich in fantasy and romance, Looking Backward is a passionate attach on the social ills of nineteenth-century industrialism and a plea for social reform and moral renewal. In her introduction, Cecelia Tichi discusses how the novel echoes the anguish and hopes of its own age while it embodies a sustaining myth of the American literary tradition-that man's perfectibility is attainable in the New World.
Author : Edward Bellamy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Looking Backward written by Edward Bellamy and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Bellamy
Publisher : Special Edition Books
ISBN 13 : 9781934255223
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (552 download)
Download or read book Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy - A Utopian Novel written by Edward Bellamy and published by Special Edition Books. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Julian West, who falls asleep in Boston for over a hundred years... then wakes to find himself in a futuristic socialist utopia, where people retire at 45 to live out the rest of their lives in leisure. His guide in this brave new America is Doctor Leete, with whom he discusses the wonders he encounters and the perils he envisions. These social-minded dialogues range from discussing religion, an improved legal system and class equality, to the use of credit cards, overnight deliveries, and the dangers of the stock market. Edward Bellamy wrote Looking Backward in 1887, and the descriptions of his futuristic socialist utopia quickly ignited spirited debate, and led to a political movement which came to be known as Nationalism. The book also inspired the creation of new utopian communities, as well as influencing over a century of urban planning, including the Garden city movement in England. This full size collectible edition has been designed for students and scholars, and features a new introduction, as well as a contemporary look at the life and influence of Edward Bellamy. It has been updated, indexed and completely restored for a modern audience. Excerpt from Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy - A Utopian Novel (Chapter 26) Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. It was the sincere belief of even the best of men at that epoch that the only stable elements in human nature, on which a social system could be safely founded, were its worst propensities. They had been taught and believed that greed and self-seeking were all that held mankind together, and that all human associations would fall to pieces if anything were done to blunt the edge of these motives or curb their operation. In a word, they believed - even those who longed to believe otherwise - the exact reverse of what to us seems self-evident; they believed, that is, that the antisocial qualities of men, and not their social qualities, were what furnished the cohesive force of society.... It seems absurd to expect anyone to believe that convictions like these were ever seriously entertained by men.... With a tear for the dark past, turn we then to the dazzling future, and, veiling our eyes, press forward. The long and weary winter of the race is ended. Its summer has begun. Humanity has burst the chrysalis. The heavens are before it. Critical reviews for Looking Backward One of the most remarkable books ever published in America... it is one of the few books ever published that created almost immediately on its appearance a political mass movement. --Erich Fromm While almost prophetic in its 19th century predictions of many modern contrivances, socially, 'Looking Backward' stands in stark contrast to America as it exists in the grip of the early 21st century world economic recession. Yet even more than a century after it was written, Bellamy's masterpiece now burns even brighter as a beacon of hope for class equality and the ideas associated with Christian socialism. --Shawn Conners, editor of Men & Women by Robert Browning - Transcendentalism: A Poem in Twelve Books
Author : Edward Bellamy
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Looking Backward, 2000-1887 written by Edward Bellamy and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1888 and a phenomenal bestseller, Looking Backward is Edward Bellamy's utopian novel about a nineteenth-century Bostonian who awakes after a sleep of more than one hundred years to find himself in the year 2000 in a world of near-perfect cooperation, harmony, and prosperity. More than just a fanciful novel, Looking Backward was, in effect, Bellamy's blueprint for a socialist-type state, conceived in response to the problems of the Gilded Age brought on in part by the pace of late-nineteenth-century industrialization. The 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. In addition to an extensive introduction, Daniel Borus's new edition of Looking Backward contains a chronology of Bellamy's life, a bibliography, questions to consider when reading the novel, and an index.
Author : Edward Bellamy
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Looking Backward written by Edward Bellamy and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Looking Backward: 2000–1887: Julian West, a young American, towards the end of the 19th century falls into a deep, hypnosis-induced sleep and wakes up 113 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 young man readily finds a guide, Doctor Leete, who shows him around and explains all the advances of this new age, including drastically reduced working hours for people performing menial jobs and almost instantaneous, Internet-like delivery of goods. The two start working on improving the future with the experiences from the past and the presence. "Equality" is a sequel to Looking Backward and it expands on the theories first explored in it. The story takes up immediately after the events of Looking Backward with the main characters Julian West, Doctor Leete, and his daughter Edith. Julian continues to learn more about the world of the year 2000. His citizenship in the new America is recognized, and he goes to the bank to obtain his own account, or "credit card," from which he can draw his equal share of the national product. He learns that women are free to compete in many of the same trades as men. Handwriting has been virtually replaced by phonograph records, and jewelry is no longer used, since jewels are now worthless. Julian is amazed by a television-like device, called the electroscope. World communication is simplified, since everyone now speaks a universal language in addition to their native tongue. Not only are there motor cars, but also private air cars. Everyone is now vegetarian, and the thought of eating meat is looked upon with revulsion.
Author : Edward Bellamy
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781542526746
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Looking Backward written by Edward Bellamy and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-13 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Bellamy was an influential American author and socialist in the late 19th century. Bellamy is most famous for the utopian novel Looking Backward which led to the formation of many Nationalist Clubs that were dedicated to the political ideas he portrayed. Looking Backward, published in 1888, is considered one of the only books in history that led to an immediate political mass movement. The book tells the story of a young American man named Julian West who falls into a deep sleep and wakes up in the year 2000.
Author : Edward Bellamy
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781475118032
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Looking Backward written by Edward Bellamy and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-03-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julian West, an upper class young man from 1887, witnesses the transformation of the world into an utopia in year 2000.
Author : Edward Bellamy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781984355775
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (557 download)
Download or read book Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 written by Edward Bellamy and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Looking Backward: 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 classic novel inspired a rebirth of the utopian novel genre and has been an inspiration to the many forward-looking thinkers who have read it.We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Author : Edward Bellamy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781727050189
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Looking Backwards written by Edward Bellamy and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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 nationalisation 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. The young man readily finds a guide, Doctor Leete, who shows him around and explains all the advances of this new age; including drastically reduced working hours for people performing menial jobs and almost instantaneous, Internet-like delivery of goods. Everyone retires with full benefits at age 45, and may eat in any of the public kitchens. The productive capacity of America is nationally owned, and the goods of society are equally distributed to its citizens. A considerable portion of the book is dialogue between Leete and West wherein West expresses his confusion about how the future society works and Leete explains.
Author : Edward Bellamy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781540318992
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (189 download)
Download or read book Looking Backward and Equality written by Edward Bellamy and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Bellamy was an influential American author and socialist in the late 19th century. Bellamy is most famous for the utopian novel Looking Backward which led to the formation of many Nationalist Clubs that were dedicated to the political ideas he portrayed.Looking Backward, published in 1888, is considered one of the only books in history that led to an immediate political mass movement. The book tells the story of a young American man named Julian West who falls into a deep sleep and wakes up in the year 2000.Equality, published in 1897, is the sequel novel to Looking Backward. The book expands on the ideas Bellamy first discussed in Looking Backward.
Author : Edward Bellamy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781420957686
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (576 download)
Download or read book Looking Backward written by Edward Bellamy and published by . This book was released on 2018-06 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1888, "Looking Backward: 2000-1887" is the highly influential work of utopian science fiction by American journalist Edward Bellamy. In the years following the American Civil War a growth in inequality led to an increase in social and economic turmoil. The rise of ever larger and less competitive firms was causing wages to stagnate and created an appetite amongst the populace for solutions to help mitigate the negative effects of an unrestrained and increasingly plutocratic form of capitalism. This appetite gave rise to a popular new literary genre, the utopian socialist novel, of which "Looking Backward" is arguably one of the most famous examples of. It is the story of young Julian West who is induced by hypnosis into a deep 113 year sleep. When he awakes in the year 2000 he finds that America has been transformed into a socialist utopia. Upon waking West readily encounters Doctor Leete, who explains to him what has transpired since he has slept. Society through a combination of technological advancement and the nationalization of the productive capacity of the United States has become a world in which people work together in mutual cooperation and harmony. "Looking Backward" was one of the best-selling novels of the 19th century, one which would inspire a large number of people to promote more socialistic public policies. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper and includes an introduction by Sylvester Baxter.
Author : Edward Bellamy
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781977797483
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (974 download)
Download or read book Looking Backward 2000 - 1887 written by Edward Bellamy and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking Backward: 2000 - 1887 By Edward Bellamy 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, after Uncle Tom's Cabin and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. It influenced a large number of intellectuals, and appears by title in many of the major Marxist writings of the day. "It is one of the few books ever published that created almost immediately on its appearance a political mass movement."
Author : Edward Bellamy
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781540513465
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (134 download)
Download or read book Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887. Novel by written by Edward Bellamy and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-19 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, after Uncle Tom's Cabin and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.[1] It influenced a large number of intellectuals, and appears by title in many of the major Marxist writings of the day. "It is one of the few books ever published that created almost immediately on its appearance a political mass movement.The decades of the 1870s and the 1880s were marked by economic and social turmoil, including the Long Depression of 1873-1879, a series of recessions during the 1880s, the rise of organized labor and strikes, and the 1886 Haymarket affair and its controversial aftermath.
Author : Edward Bellamy
Publisher : Wisehouse Classics
ISBN 13 : 9789176374467
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Looking Backward written by Edward Bellamy and published by Wisehouse Classics. This book was released on 2017-10-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Edward Bellamy
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781293907757
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Looking Backward, 2000-1887 - Primary Source Edition written by Edward Bellamy and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
