Erewhon
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Erewhon

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
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Erewhon

About this book

In a faraway land, a traveler encounters a peculiar, topsy-turvy society in which sickness is a punishable crime and crime is an illness for which criminals receive compassionate medical treatment. The English church is ridiculed as a "musical bank," which deals with a currency nobody believes in but which everyone pretends to value. University instructors teach courses on how to take a long time to say nothing, and machines are banned for fear they will evolve and be the masters of man.
First published in 1872, Erewhon (an anagram for "nowhere") is perhaps the most brilliant example of Utopian novels, taking aim at the humbug, hypocrisy, and absurdities surrounding such hallowed institutions as family, church, mechanical progress, advances in scientific theory, and legal systems.
Intelligent, inventive, and wickedly humorous, the classic novel protests the blind acceptance of ideas and attitudes, an aspect of Samuel Butler's work that made his fiction enduring, entertaining, and thought-provoking. His remarkable prescience in anticipating future sociological trends adds a special relevance for today's readers.

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Information

Publisher
Dover Publications
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780486420486
eBook ISBN
9780486111070
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Classics
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. DOVER THRIFT EDITIONS
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Note
  5. Preface to the First Edition
  6. Preface to the Second Edition
  7. Preface
  8. Table of Contents
  9. Chapter I - Waste Lands
  10. Chapter II - In the Wool-Shed
  11. Chapter III - Up the River
  12. Chapter IV - The Saddle
  13. Chapter V - The River and the Range
  14. Chapter VI - Into Erewhon
  15. Chapter VII - First Impressions
  16. Chapter VIII - In Prison
  17. Chapter IX - To the Metropolis
  18. Chapter X - Current Opinions
  19. Chapter XI - Some Erewhonian Trials
  20. Chapter XII - Malcontents
  21. Chapter XIII - The Views of the Erewhonians Concerning Death
  22. Chapter XIV - Mahaina
  23. Chapter XV - The Musical Banks
  24. Chapter XVI - Arowhena
  25. Chapter XVII - Ydgrun and the Ydgrunites
  26. Chapter XVIII - Birth Formulae
  27. Chapter XIX - The World of the Unborn
  28. Chapter XX - What They Mean by It
  29. Chapter XXI - The Colleges of Unreason
  30. Chapter XXII - The Colleges of Unreason—(continued)
  31. Chapter XXIII - The Book of the Machines
  32. Chapter XXIV - The Book of the Machines—(continued)
  33. Chapter XXV - The Book of the Machines—(concluded)
  34. Chapter XXVI - The Views of an Erewhonian Prophet Concerning the Rights of Animals
  35. Chapter XXVII - The Views of an Erewhonian Philosopher Concerning the Rights of Vegetables
  36. Chapter XXVIII - Escape
  37. Chapter XXIX - Conclusion
  38. DOVER • THRIFT • EDITIONS