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Looking Backward: 2000-1887

by Edward Bellamy · 1888

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Edward Bellamy's classic look at the future has been translated into over twenty languages and is the most widely read novel of its time. A young Boston gentleman is mysteriously transported from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century — from a world of war and want to one of peace and plenty. This brilliant vision became the blueprint of utopia that stimulated some of the greatest thinkers of our age.

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science fictionscience fictionMore like thisLess of thisdystopiadystopiaMore like thisLess of thistime traveltime travelMore like thisLess of thisliterary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of thishistorical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of this
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politicspoliticsMore like thisLess of thissocial issuessocial issuesMore like thisLess of this
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BostonBostonMore like thisLess of thiscollegecollegeMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
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politicspoliticsMore like thisLess of thisphilosophyphilosophyMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of thiseconomicseconomicsMore like thisLess of thissciencescienceMore like thisLess of this
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adult
Length
medium · 240 pages

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