Erewhon / Edition 1

by Samuel Butler

Overview

Written in the tradition of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, English novelist, essayist, and iconoclast Samuel Butler (1835-1902) describes an imaginary visit to a topsy-turvy country called Erewhon (an anagram of "nowhere"), where it is a punishable offense to be physically ill, but where criminality and immorality are looked kindly upon as treatable diseases. The English church is pilloried in the system of "Musical Banks," whose currency nobody believes in but everyone pretends to value. Universities teach courses on how to say nothing at great length, and all machines have been banned for fear that they will develop through evolution and enslave the citizens.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781573922043
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	04/01/1998
Series:	Literary Classics
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	328
Sales rank:	672,092
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 8.99(h) x 0.72(d)

About the Author

Samuel Butler was an iconoclastic Victorian author who published a variety of works, including the Utopian satire Erewhon and the posthumous novel The Way of All Flesh, his two best-known works. Butler also made prose translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey which remain in use to this day.

Editorial Reviews

[Takes] imagination of a very high order to see that machinery could be dangerous as well as useful.” —George Orwell

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