Julian is convinced that he is in the future when the doctor who discovered him, Leete, shows him how the city landscape changed. Julian was discovered by a medic who tried to build a laboratory over the place where Julian’s house used to be. One day however, Julian is unable to wake up and when he does wake up, he finds that he slept from 1887 until 2000. Despite knowing that he could remain trapped in that state for a long time, Julian still continues to seek the help of a man capable of putting him in a deep sleep. Julian suffers from insomnia and the only way he can sleep is by locking himself in a room in his basement and being hypnotized. Julian is a wealthy man engaged to a beautiful women but he suffers because he sees the inequality around him and realizes that there is nothing he can do. The story begins in the nineteen century, the century when Julian West, the main character and narrator of the story, was born. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. Bellamy’s attack on an unregulated capitalist system and his indictment of it made him a national figure in the United States and brought response from all parts of the world.These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. Initially conceived as a simple fable of social happiness, Looking Backward evolved, as Edward Bellamy wrote it, into a portrait of a society organized along military lines dedicated to guaranteeing the well-being of all citizens by providing them with meaningful work. More about the E-ditions Program »ĭecades after its first publication in 1888, this edition of Looking Backward, with a brilliant interpretative introduction by the editor, provides renewed currency for one of the most famous, popular, and influential literary utopias ever devised. They are also available to institutions in ten separate subject-area packages that reflect the entire spectrum of the Press’s catalog. The 2,800 titles in the “e-ditions” program can be purchased individually as PDF eBooks or as hardcover reprint (“print-on-demand”) editions via the “Available from De Gruyter” link above. Harvard University Press has partnered with De Gruyter to make available for sale worldwide virtually all in-copyright HUP books that had become unavailable since their original publication.

Looking backward 2000 1887