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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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:23/02/2006
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- ISBN:9780140430578
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:23/02/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780140430578