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Book Synopsis Looking Backward: 2000-1887 by : Edward Bellamy
Download or read book Looking Backward: 2000-1887 written by Edward Bellamy and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 1887. According to Erich Fromm, Looking Backward is "one of the most remarkable books ever published in America".
Book Synopsis Looking Backward by : Edward Bellamy
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.
Book Synopsis Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy - A Utopian Novel by : Edward Bellamy
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
Book Synopsis Looking Backward, 2000-1887 by : Edward Bellamy
Download or read book Looking Backward, 2000-1887 written by Edward Bellamy and published by Best Classic Books . This book was released on 1970 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Looking Backward by : Edward Bellamy
Download or read book Looking Backward written by Edward Bellamy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1982-12-16 with total page 244 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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Book Synopsis Looking Backward by : Edward Bellamy
Download or read book Looking Backward written by Edward Bellamy and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 146 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.
Book Synopsis Looking Backward by : Edward Bellamy
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:
Book Synopsis Looking Backward from 2000 To 1887 by : Edward Bellamy
Download or read book Looking Backward from 2000 To 1887 written by Edward Bellamy and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works.
Download or read book Equality written by Edward Bellamy and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sequel to Bellamy's Looking Backward, his utopian novel of several years earlier, where a young man falls asleep in 1887 and wakes in a utopian year 2000, where all social ills are solved. This novel continues the thread of his utopian vision. Equality begins when Julian West returns to the year 2000 to continue his education. The book describes an ideal society in that year. Equality was published just before his death and was not received nearly as well as Looking Backward.
Book Synopsis Looking Backward by : Edward Bellamy
Download or read book Looking Backward written by Edward Bellamy and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2009-11-29 with total page 132 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. In "Looking Backward," Julian West (an aristocratic young gentleman) mysteriously wakes from a sleep of over a hundred years to find himself transplanted to a utopian futuristic world. Waking up in the year 2000, he finds that 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 hundred years, the horrors of nineteenth-century capitalism have been all but forgotten. Broad streets have replaced the squalid slums of Boston, and technological inventions have transformed people's everyday lives. Exiled from the past, Julian West excitedly settles into the ideal society of the future, while still fearing that he has dreamt up his experiences as a time traveler. "Looking Backward: 2000-1887m" inspired a rebirth of the utopian novel genre and has been an inspiration to the many forward-looking thinkers who have read it. Written by Edward Bellamy, it is a thunderous indictment of industrial capitalism and a resplendent vision of life in a socialist utopia.
Book Synopsis Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 by : Edward Bellamy
Download or read book Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 written by Edward Bellamy and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-19 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Bellamy was an American author, journalist, and political activist most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward. Bellamy's vision of a harmonious future world inspired the formation of numerous "Nationalist Clubs" dedicated to the propagation of Bellamy's political ideas.
Book Synopsis Looking Backward and Equality by : Edward Bellamy
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.
Book Synopsis Looking Backwards by : Edward Bellamy
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.
Book Synopsis Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887. Novel by by : Edward Bellamy
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.
Book Synopsis Looking Backward 2000 - 1887 by : Edward Bellamy
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."
Download or read book Edward Bellamy written by Edward Bellamy and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 100 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. 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 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.
Book Synopsis Looking Backward from To 2000-1887 by : Edward Bellamy
Download or read book Looking Backward from To 2000-1887 written by Edward Bellamy and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel by a Christian socialist Edward Bellamy Looking Backward: 2000-1887 is a utopia that was very popular in the nineteenth century.Within the first year after the publication 200000 copies of the book were sold in the USA, with other 100000 in Great Britain. The book caused a massive outcry all over the world. Political and public movements appeared in different countries, and they set a goal to put into practice the public system described in the novel.
