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"Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (1888) is one of the most influential utopian novels in English. The narrative follows Julian West, who goes to sleep in Boston in 1887 and wakes in the year 2000 to find that the era of competitive capitalism is long over, replaced …
The classic study of human nature which depicts the degeneration of a group of schoolboys marooned on a desert island.
A strict father teaches his children to value education and logic above human emotion, which brings unintended consequences.
A strict father teaches his children to value education and logic above human emotion, which brings unintended consequences.
In the depressed mill town of Coketown, schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind lives to impose his version of education: feeding the mind while starving the soul and spirit. Inflexible and unyielding, he places conformity above curiosity, and logic over sentiment, only to have his philos…