书名：Looking Backward:2000-1887回顾：公元2000-1887年

作者：Edward Bellamy
出版社名称：Signet Classics
出版时间：2009
语种：英文
ISBN：9780451531162
商品尺寸：10.6 x1.5x 17.3 cm
包装：简装
页数：256 （以实物为准）

1888年，美国作家爱德华·贝拉米出版了社会空想改良主义长篇小说Looking Backward:2000-1887《回顾：公元2000-1887年》。这本书出版后曾经风行一时，在美、英各地销售100万册以上，并被译成德、法、俄、意、阿拉伯、保加利亚等国文字。
作者爱德华•贝拉米从幻想的波士顿城一百年的“惊人变化”，叙述想象中20世纪的美国新的社会、生产制度。贝拉米在这部作品中暴露了资本主义社会制度的各种矛盾和弊病，提出了空想改良主义的经济、政治主张。
本书为Signet Classics出版的简装英文原版，内容完整无删减，书本小巧便携。由Walter James Miller作序，Eliot Fintushel后记。

“There is no better book thanLooking Backwardfor understanding the intersecting private and public spheres in Victorian America. This is easily the best edition on the market, thanks to the fine introduction that puts Bellamy in the sweep of utopian writing, the nice selection of contemporary responses, and the excerpts from Bellamy’s ‘Religion of Solidarity’ andEquality.” ―Richard Fox, University of Southern California
“This edition is set apart from all other editions by Alex MacDonald’s excellent introduction and annotations and an excellent selection of related texts.” ―Lyman Tower Sargent, University of Missouri-St. Louis, Editor ofUtopian Studies
“This edition is extremely welcome. The introduction is clear and accessible, and both situates the text historically and stresses its continuing relevance. Above all, the additional texts provide supporting material that makes this edition a truly invaluable resource.” ―Ruth Levitas, University of Bristol

Edward Bellamy’s prophetic novel about a young Boston man who is mysteriously transported from the 19th to the 21st century—from a world of war and want to a world of peace and plenty.

The year is 2000. The place: Utopian America. The hero: anyone who has ever longed for escape to a better life…

Translated into more than twenty languages, and the most widely read novel of its time,Looking Backwardis more than a brilliant visionary’s view of the future. It is a blueprint of the “perfect society,” a guidebook that stimulated some of the greatest thinkers of our age. Today—in the very era it attempted to visualize—it is even more compelling than ever.

With an Introduction by Walter James MillerAnd an Afterword by Eliot Fintushel

Looking Backward:2000-1887《回顾：公元2000-1887年》初次出版于1888年，当时是一部非常流行的小说，翻译成20多种语言，其乌托邦幻想影响了像约翰·杜威和托斯丹·范伯伦这样的思想家。作者贝拉米从19世纪的角度出发，对自己的时代进行了深刻的批判，他对未来提出了一个卓越愿景，大胆预测了广播、电视、电影和信用卡等事物。

表面上，小说是时间穿越者朱利安·韦斯特的故事，他是一个年轻波士顿人，催眠后进入十九世纪末期，醒来时在社会主义乌托邦的2000年。犯罪、战争、个人仇恨和需求都是不存在的。男女真正平等。简而言之，兄弟般友爱的救世主状态正在起作用。

Looking Backward:2000-1887《回顾：公元2000-1887年》一书好玩、刺激、引人深省，是对人类社会本来和可能样子的启发性研究。

First published in 1888,Looking Backwardwas one of the most popular novels of its day. Translated into more than 20 languages, its utopian fantasy influenced such thinkers as John Dewey and Thorstein Veblen. Writing from a 19th-century perspective and poignantly critical of his own time, Bellamy advanced a remarkable vision of the future, including such daring predictions as the existence of radio, television, motion pictures, and credit cards.
On the surface, the novel is the story of time-traveler Julian West, a young Bostonian who is put into a hypnotic sleep in the late 19th century, and awakens in the year 2000 in a socialist utopia. Crime, war, personal animosity, and want are nonexistent. Equality of the sexes is a fact of life. In short, a messianic state of brotherly love is in effect.
Entertaining, stimulating, and thought-provoking,Looking Backwardis a provocative study of human society as it is and as it might be.

爱德华•贝拉米，空想社会主义者，作家，记者。出生于美国马萨诸塞州契科佩瀑布。在纽约州和德国求过学。当过马萨诸塞州斯普帕菲耳德《联盟报》副主编，纽约《晚邮报》的社论拱笔者。《民族主义》和《新国家》刊物的主编等。1881年写成小资产阶级空想社会主义小说《回顾》。因之而蜚声世界。该小说采用虚构情节的形式描述了确计划的资本主义社会。主张把整个民族分成若干产业大军，保留继承权和资本主义的托拉斯组织，承以大机器带来的新制度。赞同采用和平改良的途径来更替社会制度。因该书的作用，一时成为美国80年代末90年代初民族主义运动的领导者。1897年又发表了《平等》一书，作为《回顾》的续编，但影响较小。

Edward Bellamy(1850-1898) was admitted to the bar in 1871, but that same year he abandoned his practice to become associate editor of theSpringfieldUnion(Massachusetts). Later, he worked as an editorial writer for theNew York Evening Post. Bellamy’s heart was no more in newspaper work than it had been in the law. His main interest lay in the field of literature. He wrote several short stories and three novels, includingDr. Heidenhoff’s Process(1880), before he married Emma Sanderson in 1882. Forced by ill health to give up his editorial career, Bellamy devoted himself to writing. His novelMiss Ludington’s Sisterwas published in 1884. The young author’s intense awareness of injustices in the economic and social systems, as well as his desire for reforms, impelled him to writeLooking Backwardin 1888. “Bellamy Clubs” sprang up across the nation and the novelist embarked on a series of lecture tours and speaking engagements. In 1891, he founded theNew Nation, a Boston newspaper, as an organ for his views, but increasing illness forced him to suspend publication. He continued, however, to work on the sequel toLooking Backward. It was published under the titleEqualityin 1897.

Walter James Miller—poet, playwright, critic, translator—has authored, co-authored, or edited 64 books, scores of scholarly articles, and hundreds of television and radio programs. Professor of English at New York University, he has won a writing fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts/ Ruttenberg Foundation.

Eliot Fintushelwrites novels and short stories in and around the genre of science fiction and is a contributing editor toTricyclemagazine. Away from the word processor, he is also a busker and a traveling showman, a two-time winner of the National Endowment's Fellowship for Solo Performance Artists.