Looking Backward

De: Edward Bellamy

Narrado por: Edward Lewis

The hero is anyone who has ever longed for escape to a better life. The time is tomorrow. The place is a Utopian America. This is the backdrop for Edward Bellamy's prophetic novel about a young Boston gentleman who is mysteriously transported from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, from a world of war and want to a world of peace and plenty. Translated into more than twenty languages, and the most widely read novel of its time, Looking Backward is more than a brilliant visionary's view of the future. It is a blueprint of the "perfect society," a guidebook that stimulated some of the prominent thinkers of our age. John Dewey, Charles Beard, and Edward Weeks, in separate surveys conducted in 1935, listed Edward Bellamy's novel as the most influential work written by an American in the preceding fifty years.(P)2000 Blackstone Audiobooks

Proto-Woke Socialist Rhetoric

It is good as a historical study. It is a shame that it was actually tried in the Soviet Union and copied by the Chinese et al with the results being a 100 million dead and billions in slavery...

Incredibly forward thinking

Again and again while listening to this book I found ideas that I had both argued for and thought were relatively new only to be astounded by Bellamy's foresight. You would never guess that this book was written in the 1800s. Again I was astounded by the modern thinking and views.

socialist utopia

132 years later and Looking Backwards is still progressive in all its ideas for the Future. Equality and Freedom reign supreme over the otherwise corruptible people of the world. Thus the narrative reminds us that there was no "great time" in American history. The poor have always been and if Bellamy's dream isn't realized, they current gap between rich and poor will only get worse.

Now I see How This Book Sparked a Revolution

Brilliant
Amazing
Smart
Thought Provoking
A necessary for survival in today's social and economic terrain.

Astonishing. Impeccable. Necessary.

This is truly an astonishing book, especially considering the time period in which it was written. I must admit, o'clock if not astounding. However, in terms of significance the book is that the up most caliber. The sentiments and implications of this book are among the highest degree.It has become one of my favorite books, and encourage everyone to read it at least once. It is more than just a book, it is a guideline for the future of our humanity.