A young traveller sets out to make his fortune and discovers the idyllic distant land of Erewhon. Its people welcome him with open arms, but this apparent utopia soon reveals its darker side.
In Erewhon, money has no value and disease is a crime, yet poverty is punishable and criminals are cared for as though sick. How can he survive in a land where morality makes no sense?
โErewhonโ is Samuel Butlerโs classic utopian satire about the hypocrisy of religion and Victorian society. Influenced by Darwinโs recently published โOn the Origin of Speciesโ, it is most famous for its ground-breaking idea of โmechanical consciousnessโ. In 1901, Butler published a sequel entitled โErewhon Revisitedโ. Both books are perfect for fans of โGulliverโs Travels.โ Samuel Butler (1835-1902) was a revolutionary English novelist and critic. He is best known for the utopian novel โErewhonโ (1872) and the posthumous, semi-autobiographical novel โThe Way of All Fleshโ (1903). Both of which have remained in print ever since. โErewhonโ is renowned as one of the first books to explore the idea of machine evolution and the writer Aldous Huxley acknowledged its influence on his novel โBrave New World.' George Bernard Shaw deemed Butler โthe greatest English writer of the latter half of the nineteenth century.โ
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