Looking Backward: 2000-1887 - Edward Bellamy - Signet Books Paperback

Condition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. May show signs of wear such as: • Shelf wear or scuffing on the cover• Creases, marks, or tears on pages or dust jacket• Possible remainder marks or previous owner’s name/notes insideBlurb: “With a Foreword by Erich Fromm The hero is anyone who has ever longed for escape to a better life. The time is tomorrow. The place is a Utopian America. This is the backdrop for Edward Bellamy's prophetic novel about a young Boston gentleman who is mysteriously transported from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century-from a world of war and want to a world of peace and plenty. Translated into more than twenty languages, and the most widely read novel of its time, Looking Backward is more than a brilliant visionary's view of the future. It is a blueprint of the "perfect society," a guidebook that stimulated some of the greatest thinkers of our age. John Dewey, Charles Beard, and Edward Weeks, in separate surveys conducted in 1935, lis