基本信息出版社：Penguin Classics
页码：240 页
出版日期：1982年12月
ISBN：0140390189
条形码：9780140390186
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Penguin Classics
外文书名：回头看: 2000-1887
分册名：2000-1887

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It is the year 2000 and full employment, material abundance and social harmony can be found everywhere.

This is the America to which Julian West, a young Bostonian, awakens after more than a century of sleep. West's initial sense of wonder, his gradual acceptance of the new order and a new love, and Bellamy's wonderful prophetic inventions electric lighting, shopping malls, credit cards, electronic broadcasting ensured the mass popularity of this 1888 novel. But however rich in fantasy and romance, Looking Backward is a passionate attach on the social ills of 19th-century industrialism and a plea for social reform and moral renewal.

In her introduction, Cecelia Tichi discusses how the novel echoes the anguish and hopes of its own age while it embodies a sustaining myth of the American literary tradition: that man's perfectibility is attainable in the New World. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.