Looking Backward

When Julian West, an aristocrat from the late 19th century, falls into a hypnotic sleep and awakes in the 20th century, he is surprised to find an ideal society. Julian West is an aristocrat in 19 ...

When Julian West, an aristocrat from the late 19th century, falls into a hypnotic sleep and awakes in the 20th century, he is surprised to find an ideal society. Julian West is an aristocrat in 19th century America. He has all that he would ever need, a happy engagement, wealth, and a pleasant place to live. Because of his comfortable place in society, Julian is unsympathetic to the plight of the middle and lower class, and even looks to their protests and strikes with distain and contempt. One day, to calm himself, he decides to be put in a hypnotic sleep by his doctor, in his own underground