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![]() ![]() Julian sets the scene of his life in 1887 in the first two chapters: he explains the class system, the differences between the rich and the poor, politics, and tells the reader about his engagement to Edith Bartlett, who came from an aristocratic background. Bellamy has built a communist society without money, only credit, without political parties, just citizens, and with a technological advantage that they did not have in 1887, where the main character and speaker, Julian West came from. ![]() Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward is a short novel about the nineteenth century’s optimistic view of the twenty-first century. ![]()
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