Looking Backward

Name: Looking Backward
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: Edward Bellamy
ISBN: 9781455102280

Author: Edward Bellamy

Narrator: Edward Lewis

Unabridged: 7 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 01/01/2006

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

This is Edward Bellamys prophetic novel about a young Boston gentleman who is mysteriously transported from the nineteenth to the twentyfirst century, from a world of war and want to a world of peace and plenty. Looking Backward is a blueprint of the perfect society, a guidebook that stimulated some of the prominent thinkers of our age.

About Edward Bellamy

Edward Bellamy (1850–1898) was a US author and journalist who abandoned his law practice to become associate editor of the Springfield (Massachusetts) Union. Later he worked as an editorial writer for the New York Evening Post and founded the New Nation, a Boston newspaper, as an organ for his views about the injustices in the economic and social systems. But his heart was primarily in the field of literature, and he wrote several short stories and novels.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jonathan-David on January 21, 2013

As a novel, this book isn't much. That isn't a mark against it, though - the story serves as a light frame to build an explanation of socialism around, and it does that very well. Looking Backward is the best and clearest way I have ever seen socialism presented (although that is not hard, since I ha......more

Goodreads review by MJ on January 03, 2021

2000th Book Read on Goodreads!* For my 2000th book ‘read’ on GR, I present Bellamy’s vision of a socialist utopia, published in 1888. Nowhere near as narratively cushy as William Morris’s News from Nowhere, although far superior to HG Wells’s weirdly fascist and crushingly boring A Modern Utopia, Bel......more

Goodreads review by RYD on November 21, 2009

As a historic work, this isn't without interest. As a piece of art, it reads more like a lecture from someone who can't stop pontificating. Edward Bellamy was trying to craft ideas for the perfect society, but it is hard to stomach in a post-Freud, post World War-I and -II and post-Soviet Union worl......more