Looking Backward 2000 1887

Author : Edward Bellamy
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140390186
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Edward Bellamy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199552576
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking Backward 2000-1887 written by Edward Bellamy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'No person can be blamed for refusing to read another word of what promises to be a mere imposition upon his credulity.' Julian West, a feckless aristocrat living in fin-de-siècle Boston, plunges into a deep hypnotic sleep in 1887 and 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 hundred years the horrors of nineteenth-century capitalism have been all but forgotten. The squalid slums of Boston have been replaced by broad streets, and technological inventions have transformed people's everyday lives. Exiled from the past, West excitedly settles into the ideal society of the future, while still fearing that he has dreamt up his experiences as a time traveller. Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward (1888) is a thunderous indictment of industrial capitalism and a resplendent vision of life in a socialist utopia. Matthew Beaumont's lively edition explores the political and psychological peculiarities of this celebrated utopian fiction. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Edward Bellamy
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781718682443
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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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 : 9781727050189
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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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 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking Backward, 2000-1887 written by Edward Bellamy and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Bellamy
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 2322455326
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Edward Bellamy
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497659744
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking Backward, 2000–1887 written by Edward Bellamy and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterwork of science fiction that imagines the world not just how it could be, but how it should be In Boston in the year 1887, Julian West is hypnotized and falls into a deep sleep. He awakens at the dawn of a new millennium in an America where war, crime, and inequality no longer exist. In this brave new world, goods are delivered in the blink of an eye, public kitchens ensure that no one goes hungry, and the retirement age is forty-five. It sounds too good to be true, but Julian soon learns that this socialist utopia is not the stuff of dreams—it is a carefully planned, wondrously liberating reality. One of the bestselling American novels of the nineteenth century, Looking Backward launched a vibrant political movement and sparked an enormous amount of debate. Today it stands as an enduring testament to the power of imagination and the best of human nature. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

Author : Edward Bellamy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781081452148
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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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 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the best-selling books of its era, Looking Backwards presents a science-fiction-influenced twist on standard political philosophy. In the novel, protagonist Julian West finds himself transported to twenty-first century America, which has become a socialist utopia. With all the talk in the media about socialism these days, Looking Backwards offers a fascinating glimpse into the origins of the socialist school of thought.

Author : Eric Rauchway
Publisher : Hill and Wang
ISBN 13 : 0374707375
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murdering McKinley written by Eric Rauchway and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2007-04-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When President William McKinley was murdered at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901, Americans were bereaved and frightened. Rumor ran rampant: A wild-eyed foreign anarchist with an unpronounceable name had killed the commander-in-chief. Eric Rauchway's brilliant Murdering McKinley restages Leon Czolgosz's hastily conducted trial and then traverses America with Dr. Vernon Briggs, a Boston alienist who sets out to discover why Czolgosz rose up to kill his president.

Author : Edward Bellamy
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781977797483
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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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."