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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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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

• Full title: Erewhon
• Author: Samuel Butler
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780140430578
• ISBN: 0140430571
• ID: 04023947
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 210 g
• Dimensions: 196 × 130 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 23. February 2006

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