Looking Backward: The Year 2000

In 1887, wealthy young Bostonian Julian West cannot sleep. Beset by insomnia and troubled by the poverty that shadows his elegant world, he seeks a hypnotist's help to rest in his new underground chamber — the very night a fire destroys everything above him. Julian wakes in the year 2000, in a Boston he no longer knows: bright, clean, and peaceful, a city without want. Guided by the kindly Dr. Leete and his luminous daughter Edith, Julian discovers a nation organized as one great cooperative family, where money has been replaced by credit, work is a happy duty, and art and music belong to everyone. But the new century asks a hard question of Julian's heart: can a man of the old age ever truly belong to this brave new world? Faithful to Edward Bellamy's beloved 1888 utopian classic, this retelling renders the story in vivid, lucid prose for today's readers. Part of Timeless Classics.