Download or read book Looking Backward written by Edward Bellamy and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Boston on December 26, 2000, but written before the turn of the nineteenth century, this classic Utopian novel is more significant and relevant than ever with its reappearance this millennium. Addressing moral and material concerns of late nineteenth century industrial America through romantic narrative, Bellamy suggests a fictionalized society in which war, poverty, and malice do not exist.