Looking Backward: 2000-1887
by Bellamy, Edward
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- Hardcover
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Looking Backward: 2000-1887 is a utopian novel by Edward Bellamy, a lawyer and writer from western Massachusetts, and was first published in 1888. According to Erich Fromm, Looking Backward is "one of the most remarkable books ever published in America. " It was the third largest bestseller of its time, after Uncle Tom's Cabin and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. It influenced a large number of intellectuals, and appears by title in many of the major Marxist writings of the day.
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- Title
- Looking Backward: 2000-1887
- Author
- Bellamy, Edward
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chicago: M.A. Donohue, 1915
- Keywords
- Edward Bellamy Looking Backward
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- Fiction;
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