(Answered) By 1900, Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward “had been translated into more than twenty languages and had sold more copies than any other American book except Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Exploring why the novel was so popular at the end of the 19th century.

By 1900, Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward “had been translated into more than twenty languages and had sold more copies than any other American book except Uncle Tom’s Cabin. It was the second book to sell over a million copies. Dozens of other utopian novels followed in its wake, but social commentators continue to rank Looking […]