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?
тАШErewhonтАЩ is Samuel ButlerтАЩs classic utopian satire about the hypocrisy of religion and Victorian society. Influenced by DarwinтАЩs recently published тАШOn the Origin of SpeciesтАЩ, it is most famous for its ground-breaking idea of тАШmechanical consciousnessтАЩ. In 1901, Butler published a sequel entitled тАШErewhon RevisitedтАЩ. Both books are perfect for fans of тАШGulliverтАЩs Travels.тАЩ Samuel Butler (1835-1902) was a revolutionary English novelist and critic. He is best known for the utopian novel тАШErewhonтАЩ (1872) and the posthumous, semi-autobiographical novel тАШThe Way of All FleshтАЩ (1903). Both of which have remained in print ever since. тАШErewhonтАЩ 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 тАШBrave New World.' George Bernard Shaw deemed Butler тАШthe greatest English writer of the latter half of the nineteenth century.тАЩ
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