Erewhon : Or, Over the Range.
Title:
Erewhon : Or, Over the Range.
Author:
Butler, Samuel.
ISBN:
9781775567561
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (375 pages)
Contents:
Title -- Contents -- Preface to the First Edition -- Preface to Second Edition -- Preface to the Revised Edition -- Chapter I Waste Lands -- Chapter II In the Wool-Shed -- Chapter III Up the River -- Chapter IV The Saddle -- Chapter V The River and the Range -- Chapter VI Into Erewhon -- Chapter VII First Impressions -- Chapter VIII In Prison -- Chapter IX To the Metropolis -- Chapter X Current Opinions -- Chapter XI Some Erewhonian Trials -- Chapter XII Malcontents -- Chapter XIII The Views of the Erewhonians Concerning Death -- Chapter XIV Mahaina -- Chapter XV The Musical Banks -- Chapter XVI Arowhena -- Chapter XVII Ydgrun and the Ydgrunites -- Chapter XVIII Birth Formulae -- Chapter XIX The World of the Unborn -- Chapter XX What They Mean by It -- Chapter XXI The Colleges of Unreason -- Chapter XXII The Colleges of Unreason-Continued -- Chapter XXIII The Book of the Machines -- Chapter XXIV The Machines- Continued -- Chapter XXV The Machines- Concluded -- Chapter XXVI The Views of an Erewhonian Prophet Concerning the Rights of Animals -- Chapter XXVII The Views of an Erewhonian Philosopher Concerning the Rights of Vegetables -- Chapter XXVIII Escape -- Chapter XXIX Conclusion -- Endnotes.
Abstract:
Samuel Butler's Erewhon , or Over the Range was published anonymously 1872. In this satire of Victorian society, the main character Higgs discovers an unknown country, the seeming utopia called Erewhon, Nowhere backwards with the "h" and "w" transposed. The starting chapters detailing the discovery of Erewhon were based on Butler's experiences in New Zealand as a young man. Butler was possibly the first to write about the idea that machines might one...
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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