9780451508836

Erewhon

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Overview

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.

ISBN-13

9780451508836

ISBN-10

0451508831

Weight

0.50 Pounds

Dimensions

7.00 x 1.00 x 5.00 In

List Price

$1.25

Format

-

Language

English

Publisher

Signet Classics

Published On

1961-01-02



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