Edward Bellamy 4 hr 46 min read

A Bostonian falls into a mesmeric sleep in 1887 and wakes in the year 2000, to a transformed America, a cooperative commonwealth that has abolished poverty, war, and want.

This is a Finnish translation of Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward, the hugely influential utopian novel. Visionary, earnest, immensely popular. Read it for the most famous of all utopias, a sweeping vision of a peaceful, prosperous socialist future that sold hundreds of thousands of copies and shaped reform movements worldwide, here rendered for Finnish readers.

In its time

Published in 1888, during the 1880s, lost races and dying earths.

Reading it

4 hr 46 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).