Cantitate/Preț
Produs

Looking Backward: 2000-1887: Penguin Classics

Autor Edward Bellamy Editat de Cecelia Tichi
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 noi 1982 – vârsta de la 18 ani
It is the year 2000-and full employment, material abundance and social harmony can be found everywhere. This is the America to which Julian West, a young Bostonian, awakens after more than a century of sleep. West's initial sense of wonder, his gradual acceptance of the new order and a new love, and Bellamy's wonderful prophetic inventions - electric lighting, shopping malls, credit cards, electronic broadcasting - ensured the mass popularity of this 1888 novel. But however rich in fantasy and romance, Looking Backward is a passionate attach on the social ills of nineteenth-century industrialism and a plea for social reform and moral renewal. In her introduction, Cecelia Tichi discusses how the novel echoes the anguish and hopes of its own age while it embodies a sustaining myth of the American literary tradition-that man's perfectibility is attainable in the New World.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Citește tot Restrânge

Toate formatele și edițiile

Toate formatele și edițiile Preț Express
Paperback (14) 5738 lei  6-8 săpt.
  Createspace – 20 dec 2012 6291 lei  3-5 săpt.
  6615 lei  3-5 săpt.
  CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform – 6656 lei  3-5 săpt.
  West Margin Press – 16 dec 2020 8795 lei  17-23 zile +816 lei  7-11 zile
  Penguin Books – 30 noi 1982 9193 lei  3-5 săpt.
  CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform – 10231 lei  3-5 săpt.
  Broadview Press – 31 dec 2002 13050 lei  3-5 săpt. +1334 lei  7-11 zile
  Wisehouse Classics – 28 ian 2016 5738 lei  6-8 săpt.
  Digireads.com – 3 iun 2018 6662 lei  6-8 săpt.
  8879 lei  6-8 săpt.
  Echo Library – 29 oct 2000 9012 lei  38-44 zile
  Applewood Books – 31 aug 2000 9976 lei  6-8 săpt.
  COSIMO CLASSICS – 31 dec 2007 11533 lei  6-8 săpt.
  Simon & Brown – 31 dec 2010 13395 lei  38-44 zile
Hardback (3) 8771 lei  3-5 săpt.
  Mint Editions – dec 2020 8771 lei  3-5 săpt.
  Wisehouse Classics – 21 oct 2017 14938 lei  38-44 zile
  Simon & Brown – 23 oct 2018 18858 lei  38-44 zile

Din seria Penguin Classics

Preț: 9193 lei

Nou

Puncte Express: 138

Preț estimativ în valută:
1760 1829$ 1458£

Carte disponibilă

Livrare economică 14-28 ianuarie 25

Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780140390186
ISBN-10: 0140390189
Pagini: 234
Dimensiuni: 128 x 201 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Seria Penguin Classics


Cuprins

Introduction by Cecilia Tichi
Suggestions for Further Reading
A Note on the Text
LOOKING BACKWARD

Textul de pe ultima copertă

Edward Bellamy's utopian novel about a nineteenth-century Bostonian who awakes after a sleep of more than one hundred years to find himself in the year 2000 in a world of near-perfect cooperation, harmony, and prosperity. The novel had an enormous impact at the time of its publication, setting in motion a wave of reform activity and creating a vogue for utopian novels that continued over the next three decades.

Notă biografică

Edward Bellamy

Descriere

Descriere de la o altă ediție sau format:

Julian West is an aristocrat in 19th century America. He has all that he would ever need, a happy engagement, wealth, and a pleasant place to live. Because of his comfortable place in society, Julian is unsympathetic to the plight of the middle and lower class, and even looks to their protests and strikes with distain and contempt. One day, to calm himself, he decides to be put in a hypnotic sleep by his doctor, in his own underground bunker. This was routine for Julian, but when tragedy in the form of a fire strikes, Julian is presumed dead and left in the bunker. A century later, Julian is found, but wakes to a world he could never predict. With the help of the man that found him, Doctor Leete, and Leete's daughter, Edith, Julian becomes familiar with the 20th century American reality of equality between the sexes, the abolition of poverty, free education, and fair working conditions. Julian must then accept recognize his unempathetic views of the past, now understanding that life is better when people of all genders, classes, and race can be happy. But when Julian finds himself back in the 19th century, he struggles to convince others of his knowledge, and starts to wonder if the ideal 20th century was all a dream. Looking Backward was one of the most commercially successful novels of the 19th century, and upon its publication, inspired mass political movement. With the portrayal of the 20th century, Bellamy advocates for equality, and rejects war and capitalism. By depicting a happy working environment, where citizens had the freedom to choose their occupations, receive fair wages, and are able to retire at a reasonable time, Bellamy raises awareness for the working class. Looking Backward has since inspired the ideology of socialism, and proposes solutions to problems that America still struggles with today. This edition of Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy features a striking new cover design and is reprinted in a readable font. With these changes, the compelling plot and insight of Looking Backward is accessible and worthy of conversation.