Looking Backward
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Looking Backward: 2000–1887 is a utopian science fiction novel by the American journalist and writer Edward Bellamy first published in 1888.
Cover of the Ticknor & Co. first edition of Looking Backward, 2000–1887
German Reclam edition 1919
Utopia
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A utopia typically describes an imaginary community or society that possesses highly desirable or near-perfect qualities for its members. It was coined by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, which describes a fictional island society in the New World.
The Earthly Paradise – Garden of Eden, the left panel from Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights
The Golden Age by Lucas Cranach the Elder
A new heaven and new earth, Mortier's Bible, Phillip Medhurst Collection
New Harmony, Indiana, a Utopian attempt, depicted as proposed by Robert Owen