| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 09 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Series |
Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Adam Sims. |
| Summary |
Published in 1888 to immediate popularity (it was the second-ever novel to sell over one million copies in the United States), Looking Backward: 2000-1887 is a dynamic rejection of industrial capitalism, and presents a depiction of a socialist utopia. The book's influence was such that a large number of 'Bellamy clubs' were established in America to discuss the book's main ideas. The novel's protagonist, aristocrat Julian West, falls into a deep hypnotic sleep in 1887 and wakes up in the year 2000 to find a very different Boston from the one he knows. In Dr Leete he finds a guide who explains the humane and efficient society in which he now finds himself - its transformation made possible by political and technological advances. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Two thousand, A.D. -- Fiction.
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Social problems -- Fiction.
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Time travel -- Fiction.
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Utopias -- Fiction.
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Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Utopian fiction.
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| Added Author |
Beaumont, Matthew, 1972-
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781781984062 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1781984069 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14909998 |
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