This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. By the time Miss Ida Ludington was twenty-five years old she recognized that she had done with happiness, and that the pale pleasures of memory were all which remained to her. She starts developing the idea of immortality and decides to go to New York and find a medium who can help her materialize the spirit of her youth.
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. By the time Miss Ida Ludington was twenty-five years old she recognized that she had done with happiness, and that the pale pleasures of memory were all which remained to her. She starts developing the idea of immortality and decides to go to New York and find a medium who can help her materialize the spirit of her youth.
This eBook edition of «The Duke of Stockbridge» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Excerpt:"Early one evening in the very last of August, 1786, only three years after the close of the Revolutionary war, a dozen or twenty men and boys, farmers and laborers, are gathered, according to custom, in the big barroom of Stockbridge tavern. The great open fireplace of course shows no cheery blaze of logs at this season, and the only light is...
This Megapack collects 20 of Edward Bellamy's novels and short stories – including his classic political science fiction novel, LOOKING BACKWARDS, and its sequel, EQUALITY. Complete contents: <P> LOOKING BACKWARD<BR> EQUALITY<BR> THE BLINDMAN’S WORLD<BR> DR. HEIDENHOFF’S PROCESS<BR> MISS LUDINGTON’S SISTER<BR> AN ECHO OF ANTIETAM<BR> THE DUKE OF STOCKBRIDGE<BR> WITH THE EYES SHUT<BR> A LOVE STORY REVERSED<BR> ...
"Looking Backward: 2000-1887" is considered to be one of the greatest and most widely read of the utopian novels. It is the story of a young gentleman from Boston who mysteriously wakes from a sleep of over a hundred years to find himself transplanted to a utopian futuristic world. This future world is one of prosperity, cooperation, and harmony. Edward Bellamy's classic novel inspired a rebirth of the utopian novel genre and has been an inspiration to the many forward-looking thinkers...
First published in 1888, “Looking Backward: 2000-1887” is the highly influential work of utopian science fiction by American journalist Edward Bellamy. In the years following the American Civil War a growth in inequality led to an increase in social and economic turmoil. The rise of ever larger and less competitive firms was causing wages to stagnate and created an appetite amongst the populace for solutions to help mitigate the negative effects of an unrestrained and increasingly plutocratic...
