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Erewhon
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Series: Literary Classics
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ISBN10: 1573922048
ISBN13: 9781573922043
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: Apr 1 1998
Pages: 328
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.92 Width: 5.53 Depth: 8.52
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781573922043
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: Apr 1 1998
Pages: 328
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.92 Width: 5.53 Depth: 8.52
Language: English
Written in the tradition of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, English novelist, essayist, and iconoclast Samuel Butler (1835-1902) describes an imaginary visit to a topsy-turvy country called Erewhon (an anagram of nowhere), where it is a punishable offense to be physically ill, but where criminality and immorality are looked kindly upon as treatable diseases. The English church is pilloried in the system of Musical Banks, whose currency nobody believes in but everyone pretends to value. Universities teach courses on how to say nothing at great length, and all machines have been banned for fear that they will develop through evolution and enslave the citizens.
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