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Looking Backward: 2000-1887

Looking Backward: 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy is available here as the complete text, split into 670 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Looking Backward: 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #25439.

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