Looking Backward

2000-1887

Edward Bellamy, Cecelia Tichi

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Penguin Classics
16 December 1982

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

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 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators.

By: Edward Bellamy
Introduction by: Cecelia Tichi
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 180g
ISBN: 9780140390186
ISBN 10: 0140390189
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 16 December 1982
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Edward Bellamy(March 26, 1850 - May 22, 1898) was an American author and socialist, most famous for hisutopiannovel,Looking Backward, 2000-1887, a tale set in the distant future of the year 2000.Bellamy's early novels, includingSix to One(1878),Dr. Heidenhoff's Process(1880), andMiss Ludington's Sister(1885) did not bring him much renown, but aturn to utopian science fiction withLooking Backward,published in January 1888, captured the public imagination and catapulted Bellamy to literary fame. Within a year the book had sold some 200,000 copies and by the end of the 19th century it had sold more copies than nearly any other book published in America up to that time, as well as spawning political movements around the country. Bellamy died of tuberculosis at the age of48.

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Looking Backward

2000-1887

Edward Bellamy, Cecelia Tichi

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