Author: EDWARD BELLAMY
Title: Lookng Backward 2000-1887
Description: Ticknor and Compnay. 1888. Hard Cover. Gd. condition - The most influential of all late 19th century American novels, Looking Backward tells the tale of Julian West, a latter-day Rip Van Winkle, who after having dined with his fiancée, is placed in a mesmeric trance on 30th May 1887, and awakes to find himself in the year 2000. During his 113-year sleep he discovers that Humanity has made huge technical and social advances. Urban squalor and pollution are gone, inequality has been abolished... (AE3). Good.

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