Edward Bellamy

Published in 1888 to immediate popularity (it was the second-ever novel to sell over one million copies in the United States), Looking Backward: 2000–1887 is a dynamic rejection of industrial capitalism, and presents a depiction of a socialist utopia....

What if you went to sleep in the smog-choked, divided world of 1887 and awoke in the staggering perfection of the year 2000?Julian West, a wealthy young Bostonian, suffers from severe insomnia exacerbated by the turbulent labor strikes of the late...

Looking Backward: 2000-1887 is a utopian novel by Edward Bellamy, 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.The book tells the story of Julian West, a young...