Looking Backward: 2000 -1887
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It is the year 2000 and full employment, material abundance and social harmony can be found everywhere.
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 attach on the social ills of 19th century industrialism and a plea for social reform and moral renewal.
