Disillusioned with the Populists' "free silver panacea" and in ill health and financial trouble, Bellamy ceased publishing his weekly New Nation in 1894 and began writing a sequel to Looking Backward. Within two years nearly 214,000 copies of the novel had been sold.Įquality. Ticknor first published the novel in 1888 Mark Twain called the original edition as "scrofulous-looking and mangy a volume as I have set eyes on." In 1889 Houghton, Mifflin purchased the failing Ticknor and published this second edition, incorporating slight changes made by Bellamy for a German translation by Rabbi Schindler in 1888. Everyone belongs to the "industrialized army" and shares in such outcomes of the economic evolution as universal education, lifelong allowances, and community dining halls. In the novel, Julian West, a nineteenth-century representative of the idle rich, awakens from a mesmerized sleep to find himself in the nationalized society of year 2000. Even his beloved Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts had begun to exhibit some of the urban problems that plagued larger cities. Married in 1882, he had become sensitive to the need for shaping a better world after the birth of his children in 18. In late 1886, Bellamy began writing Looking Backward, the utopian novel for which he is best known. 1888 Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1889.
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