This marvelous book is the sequel to Bellamy's Looking Backward, his utopian novel of several years earlier, where a young man falls asleep in 1887 and wakes in a utopian year 2000, where all social ills are solved. This novel continues the thread of his utopian vision. Equality begins when Julian West returns to the year 2000 to continue his education. The book describes an ideal society in that year. Equality was published just before his death and was not received nearly as well as Looking Backward. Bellamy was born in 1850 in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts. As a young man he studied law and entered the bar, but never practiced. He was a journalist and social theorist as well as a novelist. Bellamy's theory of public capitalism would greatly affect American political thought in the 20th century. [mehr][weniger]
Looking backward Was A Small Book, And I Was Not Able To Get Into It All
I Wished to Say On The Subject. Since It Was Published what Was Left Out
Of It Has Loomed up As So Much More Important Than What It Contained that
I Have Been Constrained to Write Another Book. I Have Taken The Date Of
Looking backward, The Year 2000, As That Of Equality, And Have Utilized
The Framework Of The Former Story As A Starting point For This Which I
Now Offer. In order That Those Who Have Not Read Looking backward May Be
At No Disadvantage, An Outline Of The Essential Features Of That Story Is
Subjoined: [mehr][weniger]
Edward Bellamy (March 26, 1850 – May 22, 1898) was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, a Rip Van Winkle-like tale set in the distant future of the year 2000. Bellamy's vision of a harmonious future world inspired the formation of over 160 "Nationalist Clubs" dedicated to the propagation of Bellamy's political ideas and working to make them a practical reality. [mehr][weniger]
Edward Bellamy (March 26, 1850 – May 22, 1898) was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, a Rip Van Winkle-like tale set in the distant future of the year 2000. Bellamy's vision of a harmonious future world inspired the formation of at least 165 "Nationalist Clubs" dedicated to the propagation of Bellamy's political ideas and working to make them a practical reality [mehr][weniger]
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