Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887

Julian West remembers a society like a great coach: the hungry masses strain at the ropes while the rich ride above them, fearing every jolt. He once counted himself among those comfortable passengers.

In 1887 Boston, West is wealthy, idle, and engaged to Edith Bartlett; he sees the misery around him as unfortunate, but inevitable. Then a hypnotic sleep carries him into the year 2000, where the old rules of wealth and labor have given way to a startlingly different society. As West tries to understand this new America, he must reckon with the world he left behind—and with the assumptions he once shared. What will he find when he looks closely at the life built in its place?

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