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The sequel to Bellamy’s Looking Backward where a young man falls asleep in 1887 and wakes in a utopian year 2000, where all social ills are solved. This novel continues the thread of his utopian vision.

Equality begins when Julian West returns to the year 2000 to continue his education. The book describes an ideal society in that year.

Julian West had been put into a hypnotic trance and placed in a sealed room. Then the house burned down and he was forgotten…until he awoke forty years later. It was the year 2000, and it seemed like Utopia.

But would it be Utopia for Julian West? He was a man of the past, totally unable to adapt to the unbelievable social, political and cultural changes; totally unable to assimilate the explosive advances in all branches of knowledge.

Julian West was a child, lost among the wonders of the Twenty-First Century – but he would have to adapt and learn if he wanted to survive.