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Title: Erewhon
Condition: New
Author: Samuel Butler
Contributor: Peter Mudford (Edited by)
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0140430571
EAN: 9780140430578
ISBN: 9780140430578
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Genre: Fiction
Topic: Classic Fiction
Release Date: 23/02/2006
Description: 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.
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 129mm
Item Width: 15mm
Item Weight: 202g
Language: English
Release Year: 2006

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