Looking Backward: 2000–1887 is a utopian novel by Edward Bellamy, written in 1887. Bellamy’s grandfather was a Baptist minister named Benjamin Putnam, who was forced to withdraw from the ministry following objections to his becoming a Freemason. The book was the 3rd largest bestseller of its time, after Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, and it inspired several utopian communities. Edward Bellamy was a relatively unknown New England born novelist, who wrote this work of visionary fiction (predictive programming) to shape the outlines of a utopian future, in which production and society were ordered for the…
You must be logged in to view this content Press Here
Comments are closed.