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 offence 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: | 9781573922043 |
| Publication date: | 1st April 1998 |
| Author: | Samuel Butler |
| Publisher: | Prometheus Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 320 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary essays Classic fiction: general and literary |
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.
Erewhon features in the following genres: Literary essays, Classic fiction: general and literary
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Erewhon was written by Samuel Butler and published by Prometheus Books
Erewhon has 320 pages