Looking Backward: 2000 to 1887 Paperback 1542912814 9781542912815 Edward Bellamy

from JBD1

A book I've intended to read for a long time, ever since learning that Edward Bellamy briefly attended Union College (my alma mater) in the late 1860s. Bellamy's book, which attained great popularity (and also significant ridicule) at the time of its publication, is a utopian manifesto wrapped li...

from justagirlwithabook

The crazy thing about this book is when it was written. The main character travels far into time and 'looks backward' into the past. The future has changed dramatically, but so much of what the author writes is applicable to 2018, which is a bit creepy to think about but also interesting. In the ...

from csweder

In college, I took a class on Political Literature--a class designed to expose political and historical thoughts and feelings through literature. This would have been an excellent addition to such a class's curriculum, as I feel it is more political commentary disguised as fiction than it is fict...

from jmattas

A socialist utopia, which tells of a world in which I'd very much like to live, where everybody is all happy-happy-joy-joy. The transition from harsh capitalism to the new order is not so believable, but the description of the socialist system and of the flaws of scattered capital is very attract...

from csweder

In college, I took a class on Political Literature--a class designed to expose political and historical thoughts and feelings through literature. This would have been an excellent addition to such a class's curriculum, as I feel it is more political commentary disguised as fiction than it is fict...