Looking Backward: 2000-1887

Edward Bellamy

⏱ 8 minScience fiction

An idle young Bostonian of 1887 is put to sleep and wakes in the year 2000, in a transformed America without money, poverty, or war, and is shown its wonders by the kindly Doctor Leete. Bellamy's hugely influential utopian romance.

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