Looking backward, 2000-1887 / Edward Bellamy ; edited with an introduction and notes by Matthew Beaumont.
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. - ;'No pers...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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2007.
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| Series: | Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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| Summary: | 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. - ;'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-si--egrave--;cle Boston, plunges into a deep hypnotic sleep in 1887 and wakes up in the year 2000. America has been turned into a rigorously centrali. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxxvi, 220 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxii-xxxvi) |
| ISBN: | 0191517461 9780191517464 9780192806291 0192806297 1281146919 9781281146915 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |