314 pages
English language
Published 1967 by Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
3 stars
(1 review)
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 attack on the social ills of nineteenth-century industrialism and a plea for social reform and moral renewal.
Subjects
- Two thousand, A.D. -- Fiction.
- Social problems -- Fiction.
- Time travel -- Fiction.
- Utopias -- Fiction.
- Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction.