Samuel Butler's "Erewhon"
Author | : Samuel Butler |
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Total Pages | : 545 |
Release | : 1970 |
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Author | : Samuel Butler |
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Total Pages | : 545 |
Release | : 1970 |
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Author | : Samuel Butler |
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Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Utopias |
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Author | : Henry Festing Jones |
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Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 1919 |
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Author | : Betty Richardson |
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Total Pages | : 1242 |
Release | : 1969 |
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Author | : Samuel Butler |
Publisher | : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2021-09-19 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 3986479813 |
Erewhon, or Over The Range Samuel Butler - Erewhon: or, Over the Range is a novel by Samuel Butler which was first published anonymously in 1872,set in a fictional country discovered and explored by the protagonist. Butler meant the title to be understood as the word "nowhere" backwards even though the letters "h" and "w" are transposed. The book is a satire on Victorian society.The first few chapters of the novel dealing with the discovery of Erewhon are in fact based on Butler's own experiences in New Zealand, where, as a young man, he worked as a sheep farmer on Mesopotamia Station for about four years (186064), and explored parts of the interior of the South Island and which he wrote about in his A First Year in Canterbury Settlement (1863).The novel is one of the first to explore ideas of artificial intelligence, as influenced by Darwin's recently published On the Origin of Species (1859) and the machines developed out of the Industrial Revolution (late 18th to early 19th centuries). Specifically, it concerns itself, in the three-chapter "Book of the Machines", with the potentially dangerous ideas of machine consciousness and self-replicating machines.
Author | : Samuel Butler |
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Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Satire, English |
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Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1872 |
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Author | : Samuel Butler |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2013-04-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781484136652 |
Erewhon: or, Over the Range is a novel by Samuel Butler, published anonymously in 1872. The title is also the name of a country, supposedly discovered by the protagonist. In the novel, it is not revealed where Erewhon is, but it is clear that it is a fictional country. Butler meant the title to be read as the word Nowhere backwards, even though the letters "h" and "w" are transposed, therefore Erewhon is an anagram of nowhere. The book is a satire on Victorian society.
Author | : Samuel Butler |
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Total Pages | : 1390 |
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Author | : Samuel Samuel Butler |
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Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2017-04-25 |
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ISBN | : 9781521144190 |
How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Erewhon by Samuel Butler Erewhon is a novel by Samuel Butler which was first published anonymously in 1872. The title is also the name of a country, supposedly discovered by the protagonist. In the novel, it is not revealed where Erewhon is, but it is clear that it is a fictional country. Butler meant the title to be read as "nowhere" backwards even though the letters "h" and "w" are transposed, as it would have been pronounced in his day (and still is in some dialects of English). The book is a satire on Victorian society.The first few chapters of the novel dealing with the discovery of Erewhon are in fact based on Butler's own experiences in New Zealand where, as a young man, he worked as a sheep farmer on Mesopotamia Station for about four years (1860-64), and explored parts of the interior of the South Island and which he wrote about in his A First Year in Canterbury Settlement (1863).The greater part of the book consists of a description of Erewhon. The nature of this nation is intended to be ambiguous. At first glance, Erewhon appears to be a Utopia, yet it soon becomes clear that this is far from the case. Yet for all the failings of Erewhon, it is also clearly not a dystopia, such as that depicted in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. As a satirical utopia, Erewhon has sometimes been compared to Gulliver's Travels (1726), a classic novel by Jonathan Swift; the image of Utopia in this latter case also bears strong parallels with the self-view of the British Empire at the time. It can also be compared to the William Morris novel, News from Nowhere. Erewhon satirises various aspects of Victorian society, including criminal punishment, religion and anthropocentrism. For example, according to Erewhonian law, offenders are treated as if they were ill, whereas ill people are looked upon as criminals. Another feature of Erewhon is the absence of machine