Edward Bellamy The Best Books

BOOK ONE:Looking Backward: 2000–1887 is a utopian novel by Edward Bellamy, a journalist and writer from Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts; it was 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. It influenced many intellectuals, and appears by title in many socialist writings of the day. "It is one of the few books ever published that created almost immediately on its appearance a political mass movement".BOOK TWO Equality: The story takes up immediately after the events of Looking Backward with the main characters from the first novel, Julian West, Doctor Leete, and his daughter Edith. West tells his nightmare of return to the 19th century to Edith, who is sympathetic. West's citizenship in the new America is recognized, and he goes to the bank to obtain his own account, or "credit card," from which he can draw his equal share of the national product. BOOK THREE: Plutocracy or nationalism, which?, ‘ADDRESS OF EDWARD BELLAMY AT TREMONT TEMPLE, BOSTON, MAY 31, 1889. When Rome was the world’s center it used to, be said that all roads led to Rome; so now, when the burden upon the heart of the world is the necessity of evolving a better society, it may be said that all lines of thought lead to the social question. For the sake of clearness, however, I shall this afternoon take up but a single thread of a single line of argument, namely, the economic.