LOOKING BACKWARDS 2000-1887-----EDWARD BELLAMY

LOOKING BACKWARD UTOPIUM

AUTHOR EDWARD BELLAMY  

BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON, MIFFIN AND COMPANY

The riverside Press, Cambridge1889

Original purchaser - Julie Perce '89

Cast in a form of romance.the character julian west goes to sleep by a hypnotic trance. Edith his furure wife. had plans to build a house when he wakes he finds another Edith which was the first Ediths daughter

looking backward  in 1857 a thirty year old writes a narrtive of how life will modify the immemorial division of society into four classes rich ,and poor , and the Educated and the ingorant.

but as time went on and now 2000 the world was now run by socialism, every man Equal  everyman paid into the gov, equal amount but would fully retire at age 45.

the writer said the only place in the world that was not going crazy with socialism was Greenland because they would not let outsiders in.

the writer said it was 10 pm, may 30,1887 he was going to sleep and was going visit a new city the next day. to lay flowers  of a fallen solier, feel alseep thinking about his betrothed. he woke up  and found  he was druged and had a dream , but when he Woke HE WAS IN SEPT.10th, 2000. you have been asleep113 years and 3 months and 11 days.

in this world the government passes out food to people. and there are no prisons this world was call Utopia. politcal theory or futuristic or vision of how the world could be.

Edward Bellamy’s 1888 utopian novel Looking Backward: 2000–1887 serves as a critique of 19th-century capitalism, proposing a socialist, nationalized society to eliminate poverty, crime, and economic inequality. It promotes the idea that managed, cooperative economy can foster human goodness and social harmony.