"Looking Backward 2000-1887" 1951 BELLAMY, Edward
$125
BELLAMY, Edward
[276] pp.
The Modern Library
1951
7 1/4" x 5"
Jacket design by E. McKnight Kauffer
w/ Rockwell Kent endpapers
VG/ VG
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Looking Backward: 2000–1887 is a utopian time travel science fiction novel by the American journalist and writer Edward Bellamy first published in 1888.
The book was translated into several languages, and in short order "sold a million copies." According to historian Daniel Immerwahr, "In the 19th-century United States, only Uncle Tom’s Cabin sold more copies in its first years" than Bellamy's book.
The novel inspired several utopian communities. In the United States alone, over 162 "Bellamy Clubs" sprang up to discuss and propagate the book's ideas. According to Erich Fromm, "It is one of the few books ever published that created almost immediately on its appearance a political mass movement."
Looking Backward influenced many intellectuals, and appears by title in many socialist writings of the day. Owing to its commitment to the nationalization of private property and the desire to avoid use of the term "socialism," this political movement came to be known as Nationalism (not to be confused with the political ideology of nationalism).