Looking Backward

'''Bellamy, Edward. Looking Backward: 2000-1887'''. Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1888. New York: NAL, 1960. And numerous other edns.

A highly influential utopian novel with some aspects many readers today find dystopian: esp. significant here is its uncritical acceptance of a thoroughly bureaucratized world. (See under Literary Criticism the essays by E. Fromm, R. Jehmlich, and D. Ketterer.)