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Looking Backward

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by Edward Bellamy
Edward Lewis
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The time is tomorrow. The place: a utopian America. The hero: anyone who has ever longed for escape to a better life. 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—and 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, Bellamy's visionary view of the future offers a blueprint of the "perfect society," a guidebook that stimulated some of the most prominent thinkers of our age. John Dewey, Charles Beard, and Edward Weeks, in separate surveys conducted in 1935, all listed Edward Bellamy's novel as the most influential work written by an American in the preceding fifty years.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Julian West

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    November 9, 2004

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781481561228
      • File size: 209400 KB
      • Duration: 07:16:14

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Text Difficulty: 10-12

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Here is the sort of intellectual Buck Rogers. In this nearly forgotten classic, a member of the Boston leisure class falls asleep in 1888 and wakes in 2000. Thence follows endless conversations reflecting journalist/fictionalist Edward Bellamy's prescient solutions to the problems of Victorian industrialism. This is less a novel than a dialectic, a quality that Edward Lewis's dry reading emphasizes. He sounds like an academic reading a paper to the Academy. His precise diction and phrasing are important pluses, given the fustian locutions he has to deal with. Y.R. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine
    • AudioFile Magazine
      An aristocrat from Victorian Boston mysteriously finds himself in a social Utopia in the year 2000. Enlightened for 1887, this noble vision seems even more remote now that the set time is so near. With his deep, rich voice Brian Marsh appropriately depicts a gentleman from the Gilded Age. Marsh puts a great deal of feeling into his characterizations, but this causes some fluctuations in sound level--perhaps a production, rather than an acting shortfall. Despite such minor glitches, this is a fine presentation of a worthwhile book. D.J. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Text Difficulty:10-12

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