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This collection includes six previously uncollected short stories, an analysis of Edward Bellamy's newspaper writings, much unpublished material about him and a number of excerpts from his notebooks. ... Read more

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Publisher: Boston : Arena Publishing CompanyPublication date: 1894Subjects: UtopiasNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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From the author: Utopian thinkers have often assumed that radical geoengineering is necessary for the creation of a perfect world. This assumption necessarily puts them at odds with environmentalism, but the conflict is not inescapable. Human difficulties with the biophysical world can instead be interpreted as arising from the interaction of environment with society and thus as capable of being eradicated simply by reforming the latter. One notable early exponent of this kind of social constructionism was the American utopian novelist and publicist Edward Bellamy (1850-1898). His fictional and nonfictional writings analyzed the ways in which the troubles that Americans of his time had with weather and climate grew out of their ways of life and political-economic institutions and would disappear if these were reformed. This line of thought allowed Bellamy to portray a utopia where human beings had ceased to suffer serious harm and inconvenience from the weather yet had not tampered with the atmospheric environment itself. Keywords: Edward Bellamy, environmentalism, social construction, utopias, weather and climate.

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Title: Edward Bellamy and the weather of utopia.
Author: William B. Meyer
Publication: The Geographical Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2004
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 94Issue: 1Page: 43(12)

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Publisher: Philadelphia Lindsay and BlakistonPublication date: 1877Subjects: Anatomy, Surgical and topographicalHuman anatomyNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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THE MARCH OF THE MINUTE MEN


The first beams of the sun of August 17, 1777, were glancing down the
long valley, which opening to the East, lets in the early rays of
morning, upon the village of Stockbridge. Then, as now, the Housatonic
crept still and darkling around the beetling base of Fisher's Nest,
and in the meadows laughed above its pebbly shoals, embracing the
verdant fields with many a loving curve. Then, as now, the mountains
cradled the valley in their eternal arms, all round, from the Hill of
the Wolves, on the north, to the peaks that guard the Ice Glen, away
to the far south-east. Then, as now, many a lake and pond gemmed the
landscape, and many a brook hung like a burnished silver chain upon
the verdant slopes. But save for this changeless frame of nature,
there was very little, in the village, which the modern dweller in
Stockbridge would recognize.

The main settlement is along a street lying east and west, across the
plain which extends from the Housatonic, northerly some distance, to
the foot of a hill. The village green or "smooth" lies rather at the
western end of the village than at the center. At this point the main
street intersects with the county road, leading north and south, and
with divers other paths and lanes, leading in crooked, rambling lines
to several points of the compass; sometimes ending at a single dwelling,
sometimes at clusters of several buildings. On the hill, to the north,
somewhat separated from the settlement on the plain, are quite a number
of houses, erected there during the recent French and Indian wars, for
the sake of being near the fort, which is now used as a parsonage by
Reverend Stephen West, the young minister. The streets are all very wide
and grassy, wholly without shade trees, and bordered generally by rail
fences or stone walls. The houses, usually separated by wide intervals
of meadow, are rarely over a story and a half in height. When painted,
the color is usually red, brown, or yellow, the effect of which is a
certain picturesqueness wholly outside any design on the part of the
practical minded inhabitants.


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LOOKING BACKWARD
From 2000 to 1887

by
Edward Bellamy
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Customer Reviews (52)

Obama Blueprint?
I happened across this book while reading "the politically incorrect guide to the 60's".

It was noted as a utopian fantasy where the government solves all problems, spreads the wealth around, and all corporations and capitalists are evil.

Classic Marxism and typical liberal fantasy!

A mystery -- that it is still in print
It is difficult to understand how "Looking Backward" attained its status as one of the canonical, if mostly unread, American books of the late 19th century, along with "How the Other Half Lives" or "Huckleberry Finn."

Presumably it got a lot of attention when it was published, but so did the lectures of John Fiske, and 75 years later no one was mentioning Fiske to high school students.

Looking backward at "Looking Backward," it is astonishing to note that there is no mention of Negroes and just barely any of immigrants -- this on the eve of the birth of Jim Crow.

I am tempted to call it a Unitarian book because it is very much about the fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of man and the neighborhood of Boston. However, it is resolutely national. Everything in it is about how the nation by 2000 has taken over the direction of production and distribution and done away with not only money, but also spitefulness, sexual jealousy and claims of blood.

It is no excuse for Bellamy that Veblen was yet unknown. He was writing in Boston, where Mayflower descendence was worth its weight in gold.

The bloody shirt was being waved to effect at the time, too, and there is nothing here to explain how links to the Society of the Cincinnati or the GAR were eroded. In fact, the evolution of the 20th century is very much a black box in "Looking Backward," except that it occurred with less bloodshed than the change of government in a minor state.

The whole tone is strange. It is all about Bostonians and Americans, but the word America does not appear. The proper Bostonians, then very conscious of their role in foisting democracy in the form of manhood suffrage on the world, are said to have given up democracy without a fight. Strange.

It is no fault of Bellamy's that he could not foretell the disappearance of the horse, but even taken as a vision, he does a much poorer job than Jules Verne. The editors of the Applewood edition ("publishers of America's living past") try to make something of the fact that Bellamy introduced the term "credit card," but his credit cards had nothing to do with ours, and in fact he is relentlessly anti-credit.

As an analysis of the ills of his time, Bellamy is pretty much a damp squib. About the only trenchant observation he makes is that "interest on investments was a species of tax in perpetuity upon the product of those engaged in industry." If he had said "land" instead of "investments," he would have been close to the insights of Henry George, writing at the same time.

As a prophet he is a wet blanket. His hatred of individualism -- never exactly defined -- is complete, but one doubts whether even the resentful proletarians of his turbulent era would have welcomed a future based on "the strictest discipline in the army of labor."

Bellamy would have loved Mussolini.

As for the book as a book, he chose to cast it in the form of a romantic novel. It is perhaps the most tedious romantic novel ever written, no small accomplishment. "Looking Backward" manages to be as precious, stilted and inhuman as the best of Henry James.

It amazes me that I got through it.

Interesting read
An interesting read for dystopina literature.Maybe a bit dated to teach today, but is thought provoking and will drive discussion as a comparison piece.

Worst Episode Ever
The reviewer who said that this is not really a novel was spot on. This is little more than a Utopian description of what effective socialism might look like sandwiched within a VERY weak story line. The ideas expressed in this book not only defy credulity, but they are now (Post-Stalin) historically discredited. The problem with the scheme laid out in this book is very simple--those who, for whatever reason, do not wish to go along with the system must ultimately be imprisoned and/or re-educated. True socialism cannot be implemented without the gulag. This book might be worth a read if for no other reason than to understand the socialist mindset. However, it should be taken with a healthy dose of Animal Farm, 1984, and especially Darkness at Noon because that is where this path ultimately leads.

Ideal Enlightenment
For the folk that are still swaiting the flyng car, this 1887 best seller captures the earlier dreams of mankind, and places a citizen of Victorian England into a future society that is scary and reassuring at the same time.This book generated clubs in the 1880s in many American cities where middlel class citizens would gather and discuss the problems of industrial revolution, and dream of the ideal better life.It is good historic read,and forecasted the world we still have not achieved. ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:PREFACE.If the divine conduct towards the intellectual system can be vindicated, there will be no room for any dispute about his decrees. If God always does what is best for him to do, his decreeing from eternity to do so, cannot be objected against; ' unless we can suppose it to be wrong for God to determine upon a conduct in all respects right. AH Gods (tecreejjmma- rily respect his own conduct. First, what a world to create. Secondly, how to behave towards his creatures, in every particular circumstance. For " God executeth his decrees in the works of creation and providence." The whole of the divine conduct towards intelligent beings, after they are brought into existence, may be arranged under these two general heads. 1. What he does. 2. What he forbears to do. For instance : He placed our first parents in the garden; he forbid them to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge on pain of death. These things he did. He did not hinder the serpent from tempting, nor our first parents from eating. These things he forbore to do. If he always has a good reason for doing what he does, and for forbearing what he forbears, then his whole conduct, as comprehending both, is justifiable.To vindicate the conduct of the Holy One of Israel, was the design of my sermons on "the Wisdom of God in the Permission of Sin." But the author of the "Attempt," not believing that God has done so well in this affair as he might have done, has iundertaken to write against — against whom ? against me ? No : I £rather, to write against his Maker. For he does not deny the'fact, namely, that God permits sin; but endeavors to prove, that God in this, as well as in some other things, has not done "what was most for his own glory." So that the design of the following pages is not to vindicate my... ... Read more

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What a glorious, all-satisfying country this Nevada desert would be, if one were only all eyes, and had no need of food, drink, and shelter! Would n't it, Miss Dwyer? Do you know, I 've no doubt that this is the true location of heaven. You see, the lack of water and vegetation would be no inconvenience to spirits, while the magnificent scenery and the cloudless sky would be just the thing to make them thrive.
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Edward Bellamy (1850-1898) was an American author and socialist.His books include Dr. Heidenhoff's Process (1880), Miss Ludington's Sister (1884), The Duke of Stockbridge (1900), and the utopian novels Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (1888), and its sequel, Equality (1897).Miss Ida was a beautiful young girl horridly scarred by illness.She is now a middle-aged spinster wanting to hold on to her past.After seeing her village destroyed by a large machine she leaves and buys a plot of land on Long Island.Here she rebuilds her childhood village and lives in it alone.She is joined by a young boy who falls in love with a girl in a picture.Together they explore the idea of immortality. ... Read more