Deserted (1898), a humorous, sentimental tale of young love amidst the Nevada desert, is a short story by the American author, Edward Bellamy, most famous for his socialist and utopian novel Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (1888). When young Mr. Lombard hears that Miss Dwyer and her sister Mrs. Eustis, are taking the train back to New York from San Francisco, he makes up an excuse to travel with them. Desperately in love with Miss Dwyer, he hopes to find the right moment to ask her to marry him, but the trip does not go according to plan. This fun and heartwarming tale will delight fans of Bellamys other works, such as Hooking Watermelons and A Love Story Reversed.
Stimulating, thought-provoking utopian fantasy about a young man who''s put into a hypnotic trance in the late 19th century and awakens in the year 2000 to find crime, war, and want nonexistent.
