Download or read book Looking Backward Illustrated written by Edward Bellamy and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-14 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly after publication, Ticknor's publishing enterprise, Ticknor and Company, was purchased by the larger Boston publisher, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., and new publishing plates were created for the book.[10] Certain "slight emendations" were made to the text by Bellamy for this second edition, released by Houghton Mifflin in September 1889.[11]In its second release, Bellamy's futuristic novel met with enormous popular success, with more than 400,000 copies sold in the United States alone by the time Bellamy's follow-up novel, Equality, was published in 1897.[12] Sales topped 532,000 in the US by the middle of 1939.[12] The book gained an extensive readership in Great Britain, as well, with more than 235,000 copies sold there between its first release in 1890 and 1935.[12]