{"product_id":"9780451531162","title":"Looking Backward: 2000-1887","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdward 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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe year is 2000. The place: Utopian America. The hero: anyone who has ever longed for escape to a better life…\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eTranslated into more than twenty languages, and the most widely read novel of its time, \u003ci\u003eLooking Backward\u003c\/i\u003e is 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith an Introduction by Walter James Miller\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnd an Afterword by Eliot Fintushel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47025533190384,"sku":"9780451531162","price":5.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780451531162_p0.jpg?v=1763705730","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780451531162","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}