Looking Backward: 2000-1887 is a utopian novel by Edward Bellamy, a lawyer and writer from western Massachusetts. According to Erich Fromm, Looking Backward is "one of the most remarkable books ever published in America". It was the third-largest bestseller of its time, after Uncle Tom's Cabin and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. It influenced a large number of intellectuals, and appears by title in many of the major Marxist writings of the day. "It is one of the few books ever published that created almost immediately on its appearance a political mass movement". In the US alone, over 162 "Bellamy Clubs" sprang up to discuss and propagate the book's ideas. This political movement came to be known as Nationalism, not to be confused with the political concept of nationalism. The novel also inspired several utopian communities...
- ISBN10 1404313826
- ISBN13 9781404313828
- Publish Date 2 July 2002 (first published 1 July 2002)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country US
- Imprint IndyPublish.com
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English