Looking Backward
 

Looking Backward

by Edward Bellamy

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. (read more)

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Autumn C
  • Rated 4 stars

Eerie. Prophetic. It's kind of mind-boggling to think that it was first published in 1888.

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Slacker Mack
  • Rated 2 stars

Dull, left-wing utopianism.

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  • Rated 3.117647 stars
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  • Rated 3.9 stars
 

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  • T.J. Hallam H

    t.j. hallam h said:

    This book brings up many intresting ideas however the overall story is very dull and and Bellamy's ideas of a utopian society are complety pointless

    posted Wednesday, June 4 2008
  • T.J. Hallam H

    t.j. hallam h said:

    This book brings up many intresting ideas however the overall story is very dull and and Bellamy's ideas of a utopian society are complety pointless

    posted Wednesday, June 4 2008
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