Looking Backward: 2000-1887

Synopsis

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.