Looking Backward (2000—1887), or, Life in the Year 2000 A.D.
A 1920s paperback copy of Edward Bellamy's Utopian novel
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Printing Details
Undated [1920s?]. Early paperback edition (The Caxton Novels). 22 × 14.5cm, 156pp + ads.
Julian West, a feckless aristocrat living in fin-de-siècle Boston, plunges into a deep hypnotic sleep in 1887 and wakes up in the year 2000. America has been turned into a rigorously centralized democratic society in which everything is controlled by a humane and efficient state. In little more than a hundred years the horrors of nineteenth-century capitalism have been all but forgotten. The squalid slums of Boston have been replaced by broad streets, and technological inventions have transformed people's everyday lives. Exiled from the past, West excitedly settles into the ideal society of the future, while still fearing that he has dreamt up his experiences as a time traveller.
Condition
A fair copy only but with an attractive period cover. The book is not an expensive publication, the print isn't always crystal clear but remaining readable. The pages heavily tanned, the covers faded, and some loss to the corners. Appears to be an uncommon printing as I can only find one other reference to it online, and in a similar condition.
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