"You have not yet told me what was the answer to the riddle which you found," I said. In the sections excerpted here, Julian West, the hero, who has fallen asleep in 1887 and awakened in the year 2000, learns how the social order of 1887 was replaced by a better one, and how the rational new order organizes its labor force. The book was the mainspring of a Nationalist movement started to realize Bellamy`s ideas, and it inspired a score of imitators. Its total sales are now well over half a million copies. Although it made a stir among the critics, up to the close of 1888 the sales had not exceeded ten thousand, after which they leaped into the hundred thousands. It went to the publishers in August or September 1887. Bellamy later recalled thet Looking Backward began in earnest to be written in the fall or winter of 1886, and was substantially finished in the following six or eight months.
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