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Looking Backward
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In 1887, wealthy Bostonian Julian West falls into a hypnotic sleep in an underground chamber and wakes in the year 2000 to find a peaceful, prosperous America without poverty, money or war. Guided by Dr. Leete and his daughter Edith, he discovers how the new society works. Edward Bellamy's 1888 utopian novel became one of the best-selling and most influential books of its century.
