Looking backward, 2000-1887 /
The year is 2000. The place: Utopian America. The hero: anyone who has ever longed for escape to a better life. 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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Modern Library,
[1951]
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| Series: | Modern Library college editions ;
T42. |
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| Summary: | The year is 2000. The place: Utopian America. The hero: anyone who has ever longed for escape to a better life. 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. Today--it is even more compelling than ever |
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| Item Description: | Sequel: Equality. |
| Physical Description: | xxvi, 276 pages ; 19 cm (12mo) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages xxii-xxiii). |