Erewhon

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.

SPECIFICATIONS:

Author:Samuel Butler - Сэмюэл Батлер

Publisher:Penguin

Language:English

Publication Date:2006

Number of pages:272 pst

Format:Paperback

Width:129 mm / 5,1'

Height:198 mm / 7,8'

Weight:202 g

ISBN:9780140430578