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Tomorrow never knows
Collins, Gail | January 21, 1991 issue

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The article focuses on the book "Looking Backward," by Edward Bellamy. "Looking Backward" is a novel about a man who falls asleep in the nineteenth century and wakes up in Boston on September 10, 2000. The book was published in 1888, when middle-class Americans were terrified by the possibility of working-class violence and appalled by the conspicuous consumption of the Gilded Age. It told them that this was all going to change-that by the year 2000 there would be no poor, no rich. The excitement over "Looking Backward" inspired dozens of other visions of what the year 2000 would be like.

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LOOKING Backward 2000-1887 (Book); BELLAMY, Edward, 1850-1898; WORKING class; MIDDLE class; VIOLENCE; AMERICANS
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