Published in the year 1888, and written by Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward, is a Utopian novel. Following Uncle Tom's Cabin and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, this novel became the third-largest hit of that time. It inspired many philosophers and obliges by title in many socialist works of the day. This was one of the few works ever published that conceived almost instantaneously on its appearance a legislative mass movement"
