"Looking Backward from 2000-1887" is considered to be one of the greatest and most widely read of the utopian novels. It is the story of a young gentleman from Boston who mysteriously wakes from a sleep of over a hundred years to find himself transplanted to a utopian futuristic world. This future world is one of prosperity, cooperation, and harmony. Edward Bellamy's "Looking Backward from 2000-1887" inspired a rebirth of the utopian novel genre and has been an inspiration to the many forward-looking thinkers who have read it. According to Erich Fromm, "Looking Backward from 2000-1887" is "one of the most remarkable books ever published in America".
"Looking Backward from 2000-1887" is considered to be one of the greatest and most widely read of the utopian novels. It is the story of a young gentleman from Boston who mysteriously wakes from a sleep of over a hundred years to find himself transplanted to a utopian futuristic world. This future world is one of prosperity, cooperation, and harmony. Edward Bellamy's "Looking Backward from 2000-1887" inspired a rebirth of the utopian novel genre and has been an inspiration to the many forward-looking thinkers who have read it. According to Erich Fromm, "Looking Backward from 2000-1887" is "one of the most remarkable books ever published in America".
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