Apparitions of Things To Come: Edward Bellamy's Tales of Mystery and Imagination

by Edward Bellamy, Franklin Rosemont (Editor and Introduction), Hal Rammel (Illustrations)

Fiction. Edited and with an introduction by Franklin Rosemont. This volume comprises nine of Bellamy's tales of mystery and imagination, tales which were written before the famously utopian LOOKING BACKWARD, credited with the radicalization of figures from Eugene Debs to Charlotte Perkins Gilman to Clarence Darrow. Ever seeking new ways to conceive of the world, Bellamy created fictions that challenge conventional, reified notions of reality, behavior, society or human nature...This is a book...of speculative philosophical fiction at high tension (from the Introduction). Bellamy's writing is at once critical of things as they are and hopeful regarding things as they might Ghosts of the future/are the only sort worth heeding. Apparitions of things past/are a very unpractical sort of demonology,/in my opinion,/compared with/apparitions of things to come (Bellamy's epigraph).

175 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

Edward Bellamy, American writer and Utopian socialist, publicized his political views through Looking Backward , his popular novel of 1888.

People acclaimed Edward Bellamy, a Christian author.

Many Marxists of the time widely regarded and referenced his work of fiction.

It first succeeded behind only Uncle Tom's Cabin and Ben-Hur .

It inspired a less successful sequel, entitled Equality , more of a tract, and generally spurred movement in the United States and abroad. At one time, people even formed a party of Edward Bellamy in the Netherlands.

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