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Erewhon

By Samuel Butler , Peter Mudford

Book information

Year
1970
ISBN
0140430571, 9780140430578
LCC
PZ3.B9779 Ep6,PR4349.B7 Ep6
Open Library ID
OL22736375M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1150646 bytes)
Pages
272\379
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Setting out to make his fortune in a far-off country, a young traveller discovers the remote and beautiful land of Erewhon, and is given a home among its extraordinarily handsome citizens. But their visitor soon discovers that this seemingly ideal community has its faults - here crime is treated indulgently as a malady to be cured, while illness, poverty and misfortune are cruelly punished, and all machines have been superstitiously destroyed after a bizarre prophecy. Can he survive in a world where morality is turned upside down? Inspired by Samuel Butler's years in colonial New Zealand, and by his reading of Darwin's "Origin of Species", Erewhon (1872) is a highly original, irreverent and humorous satire on conventional virtues, religious hypocrisy and the unthinking acceptance of beliefs.

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