{"name":"Looking Backward: 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy","short_name":"Looking Backward: 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy","theme_color":"#ffffff","start_url":"/","display":"standalone","background_color":"#fff","description":"Looking Backward: 2000-1887 is a utopian novel by Edward Bellamy, first published in 1888. It was the third largest bestseller of its time, after Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.The book tells the story of Julian West, a young American who, towards the end of the 19th century, falls into a deep, hypnosis-induced sleep and wakes up more than a century later. He finds himself in the same location (Boston, Massachusetts) but in a totally changed world: It is the year 2000 and, while he was sleeping, the U.S.A. has been transformed into a socialist utopia. This book outlines Bellamy’s complex thoughts about improving the future, and is an indictment of industrial capitalism.","icons":[{"src":"https://deow9bq0xqvbj.cloudfront.net/image-logo/18509193/Looking-Backward-2000-1887_300x300.jpg","sizes":"300x300","type":"image/png"}]}