Looking Backward: (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Edward Bellamy
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good-/No DJ
- ISBN 10
- 0486290387
- ISBN 13
- 9780486290386
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About This Item
BELLAMY, Edward: Looking Backward. New York, Dover Publications,Inc., 1996. Originally published in 1888. Softcover, 165 pp. Subject: Novel / SF Fiction & Literature / Speculative Fiction / Utopias-Fiction. Condition: Very Good Minus. Some age toning to the pages but all unmarked and the text readable. Corner crease to one of the extremities. A seminal text in the canon of modern utopian literature. A must read for students of the genre. ISBN: 0486290387
Synopsis
Looking Backward: 2000-1887 is a utopian novel by Edward Bellamy, a lawyer and writer from western Massachusetts, and was first published in 1888. According to Erich Fromm, Looking Backward is "one of the most remarkable books ever published in America. " It was the third largest bestseller of its time, after Uncle Tom's Cabin and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. It influenced a large number of intellectuals, and appears by title in many of the major Marxist writings of the day.
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- The Brooklyn Bookman (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9780140714651
- Title
- Looking Backward
- Author
- Edward Bellamy
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No DJ
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Dover Thrift Edition: 1996
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0486290387
- ISBN 13
- 9780486290386
- Publisher
- Dover Publications, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1996
- Pages
- 165
- Keywords
- Novel / SF Fiction & Literature / Speculative Fiction / Utopias-Fiction
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- THE BROOKLYN BOOKMAN – USED, OUT OF PRINT, RARE & COLLECTIBLE BOOKS CATALOG; SF & Fantasy Classics!; Modern World Literature; SF/Fantasy; Classics of World Literature;
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