Equality (book)

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Equality
Author Edward Bellamy
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Utopian novel
Publisher D. Appleton-Century Company
Publication date 1897
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages xii, 412 pp
ISBN NA
Preceded by Looking Backward

Equality is a utopian novel by Edward Bellamy, and the sequel to Looking Backward: 2000-1887 and was first published in 1897. Bellamy used Equality to expand on the theories he first explored in Looking Backward: 2000-1887.

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The story takes up immediately after the events of Looking Backward with the main characters from the first novel, Julian West, Edith Leete, and Doctor Leete.

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[edit] Reaction

Reaction to Equality was generally not good. Nicholas P. Gilman provides a common criticism for the work in his review for the Quarterly Journal of Economics. Written in 1897, Gilman explains, "Mr. Bellamy has apparently abandoned fiction, and has at length broken the silence of several years with a volume which is neither novel nor a treatise on socialism in scientific form, but a prolonged reduplication of the monologues of Dr. Leete, the part of Looking Backward which has the least interest for most of its readers" (Gilman, 76).

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[edit] References

Gilman, Nicholas P. Bellamy's "Equality." The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Oct., 1897), pp. 76-82. Published by: The MIT Press. Available through JSTOR: [1]

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