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Erewhon:  Over the Range

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Erewhon: Over the Range

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Author: Samuel Butler
Publisher: Penguin Books, 1970
Trubner & Co., 1872
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Book Type: Novel
Genre: Science-Fiction
Sub-Genre Tags: Dystopia
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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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Erewhon: Over the Range

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  (10/29/2015)

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