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Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887
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A utopian science-fiction novel in which a Bostonian falls asleep in 1887 and wakes in the year 2000 to find American society transformed into a socialist order. Suitable for readers interested in utopian literature, political thought, and 19th-century social criticism.
Edward Bellamy
Edward Bellamy was an American author, journalist, and political activist most famous for his utopian novel Looking Backward. Bellamy's vision of a harmonious future world inspired the formation of numerous "Nationalist Clubs" dedicated to the propagation of state ownership of the main pillars of the economy, achieved through nationalization.
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