Looking backward, 2000-1887 /
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| Author / Creator: | Bellamy, Edward, 1850-1898. |
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xxxvi, 220 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oxford world's classics Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11178276 |
| Summary: | '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-siècle Boston, plunges into a deep hypnotic sleep in 1887 and wakes up in the year 2000. America has been turned into a rigorously centralized democratic society in which everything is controlled by a humane and efficient state. In little more than a hundred years the horrors of nineteenth-century capitalism have been all but forgotten. The squalid slums of Boston have been replaced by broad streets, and technological inventions have transformed people's everyday lives. Exiled from the past, West excitedly settles into the ideal society of the future, while still fearing that he has dreamt up his experiences as a time traveller. 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. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. |
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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 9781435609440 1435609441 9786611146917 6611146911 |