7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Completely unreadable, do not buy this edition!, April 5 2010
By Alex Rowell - Published on Amazon.com
At the onset of this edition of "Equality," the publisher attempts to explain why the rest of the book is an unreadable, haphazard mess of random letters, spacing, and punctuation. Apparently this book was scanned using (very poor) optical character recognition. The publisher, General Books LLC, did not find that they needed to edit this in the slightest. As a result, your reading experience will be flooded with phrases like this, an actual quote from this book: "owner's v legal righL af.-e?eciijig-the occupant." The chapters are also not organized properly, paragraphs are spaced terribly, and unnecessary line breaks run amok.
Save yourself the hassle of trying to interpret this machine-scanned garbage, and buy a legitimate copy of Equality from a legitimate publisher.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
"Equality" has formed a critical part of my thinking on social justice, Aug 15 2009
By Michael L. Baird "Author "Engineering You... - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Equality (Paperback)
50 years ago my father gave me his copy of Bellamy's Equality - a well-worn often read tome in our family. It formed a critical part of my thinking ever since, and has guided me in making fundamental decisions about what is right and wrong, good and evil, and just and unjust. Anyone interested in social justice, or the abuse of political, religious, or financial power, should read and internalize what Bellamy was visualizing in his view of an ideal society in the late 1800's, based in part on his earlier work on his looking back from the Twenty-first Century Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (Penny Books).
4.0 out of 5 stars
Enjoyed, May 16 2012
By clarifier - Published on Amazon.com
I found the story enjoyable, and while I personally appreciated the explanation of what I believe to be the lost message of Jesus, it's dream has yet to be realized, suggesting yet to be resolved challenges in implementing a society which is totally satisfying for all.