Erewhon

Author(s)

• Butler, Samuel
• Mudford, Peter

Bibliographic Information

Erewhon

by Samuel Butler ; edited with an introduction by Peter Mudford

（Penguin English library）

Penguin, 1970

Description and Table of Contents

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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Details

• NCID: BA09880257
• ISBN:
  • 0140430571
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Harmondsworth
• Pages/Volumes: [1],270p
• Size: 19cm
• Classification:
  • DC18 : 823/.8
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00304654