Looking Backward - Large Print Author:Edward Bellamy On a night in 1887 Julian West, a young Boston insomniac, is put to sleep in his sound-proofed basement room by a hypnotist. Time passes - indeed, exactly 113 years, three months and 11 days. And Julian West awakes, to his amazement, in the year 2000 - to a wondrously utopian world of peace and plenty. — If only a few of Bellamy's prophecies ... more »have approached realization, his work remains influential. First published in 1888, Looking Backward has been translated into more than twenty languages, inspiring both scholars and laymen with its bright visionary dream.« less