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Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited
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Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited Paperback - 2015

by Samuel Butler

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In Erewhon, an anagram for nowhere, sickness is a punishable crime, criminals receive compassionate medical treatment, and machines are banned, lest they evolve and take over. Originally published in 1872, the proto-steampunk novel Erewhon won its author immediate recognition as a satirist. SamuelButler followed in the tradition of Voltaire and Swift in creating Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited, which are widely recognized as the nineteenth century's most important works of their kind.
Entertaining and provocative, these books are unsparing in their treatment of the hypocrisies of Victorian society, taking aim at the family, church, and mechanical progress. George Orwell, no stranger to the depiction of futuristic societies, noted that at the time of Erewhon's writing the author needed imagination of a very high order to see that machinery could be dangerous as well as useful. Today's readers will also find the book remarkably prescient in its anticipation of future sociological trends.

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  • Title Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited
  • Author Samuel Butler
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Dover Publications
  • Publication date 2015-07
  • ISBN 9780486796376 / 048679637X
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5 x 0.9 in (20.32 x 12.70 x 2.29 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Satire, Utopias
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2014044387
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

In addition to his Utopian satire Erewhon, Samuel Butler (1835-1902) remains best known for his semi-autobiographical novel, The Way of All Flesh. His other works comprise studies of Italian art, literary history and criticism, and prose translations of the Illiad and Odyssey that remain in use to this day.

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