Tom's Cabin and Ben-Hur. In the book, Julian West, an upper class young man from 1887, witnesses the transformation of the world into an utopia in year 2000. The book influenced a large number of intellectuals. It is one of the few books ever published that created almost immediately on its appearance a political mass movement. Bellamy Clubs sprang up all over the United States for discussing and propagating the book's ideas, which also inspired several utopian communities.

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